US Patent Issued to Adobe on Feb. 24 for "Compressed representations for appearance of fiber-based digital assets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,897, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compressed representations for appearance of fiber-based digital assets" was invented by Krishna Bhargava Mullia Lakshminarayana (San Francisco), Xin Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Milos Hasan (Lafayette, Calif.) and Fujun Luan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generation of compressed representations for appearance of fiber-based digital assets are described that support computationally efficient and high fidelity rendering of digital assets that include fiber primitives under a variety of lighting conditions and view directions. A pr...