US Patent Issued to Adobe on April 7 for "Vector object path segment editing" (Indian, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,178, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vector object path segment editing" was invented by Shashidhar Mangu (Ghatkesar, India), Tudor Muscalu (Bucharest, Romania), Priyanka Channabasappa Herur (Bengaluru, India), Piyush Vashisht (Banger, India) and Mrinalini Sardar (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vector object path segment editing techniques are described that retain edibility of a path while supporting editing of a segment included within the path, individually and separately, without editing other segments of path. A vector object editing module first retrieves information on segments i...