US Patent Issued to Adobe on June 16 for "Constrained stroke editing for digital content" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,944, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Constrained stroke editing for digital content" was invented by Anant Gilra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Constrained stroke editing techniques for digital content are described. In these examples, a stroke constraint system is employed as part of a digital content creation system to manage input, editing, and erasure (i.e., removal) of strokes via a user interface as part of editing digital content. To do so, locations and attributes of a displayed stroke are used to constrain location and/or attributes of an input stroke."

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