IBM Patents a Screenshot Format That Keeps Buttons Functional
A screenshot is usually a dead image — you can see the button, but you can't tap it. IBM wants to change…
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IBM Patents a Self-Tuning System for LLM RAG Pipeline Parameters
Getting an LLM to answer questions accurately over your own documents depends heavily on a tangle of configuration knobs — chunk size,…
Adobe Patents a Context-Aware Query Rewriter That Routes Requests to the Right AI Model
When you're mid-conversation with an AI assistant and type something vague like 'make it shorter,' the system has to figure out what…
Adobe Patents a Neural Material Encoding System for Lightweight 3D Assets
Adobe wants to let you take a richly detailed 3D object — complex curves, intricate surface materials — and compress its visual…
Adobe Patents a Parallel Approach to Causal Linear Attention in Neural Networks
Attention mechanisms are the engine inside modern AI — but they're also the bottleneck. Adobe's new patent describes a way to run…
Adobe Patents an AI System That Merges Image Content with a Separate Style Source
Adobe is patenting a way to let an AI take the subject matter from one photo and the visual style from another…
Adobe Patents a Distillation Trick to Speed Up AI Image Generation
Diffusion models make beautiful images, but they're slow — they have to reverse a noisy process dozens of times per generation. Adobe's…
Adobe Patents a Condition-Map System for Controlling AI Image Structure
Adobe is patenting a way to give AI image generators a spatial blueprint — a 'condition map' — so the model produces…
Adobe Patents a System for Keeping Customer Identity Graphs from Collapsing
When you try to link too many customer identifiers together in a single graph, the whole thing can fall apart. Adobe's new…
Adobe Patents a Parallel-Batching Fix for LLM Context Window Overflow
Every LLM has a context window — a hard cap on how much text it can read at once. Adobe's new patent…
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