ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,950, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Glyph-aware text selection" was invented by Rohit Kumar Dubey (Rajasthan, India) and Aman Arora (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for glyph-aware text selection. For instance, a glyph selection system can detect that a user has selected a glyph within a user interface. The glyph selection system can highlight the glyph and/or a region encompassing the glyph to communicate, to the user, that the glyph is selected. This highlighted region can be determined based on the shape and/or outline of the glyph. For example, th...