ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,931, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional object editing and visualizations" was invented by David McKinley Cardwell (Toronto), Kowsheek Mahmood (Concord, Canada), Christophe Darphin (Lyons, France) and Salvador German Soto Gutierrez (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional object edit and visualization techniques and systems are described. In a first example, a content navigation control is implemented by a content editing system to aid navigation through a history of how a three-dimensional environment and a three-dimensional object included in the environment is crea...