ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,763, issued on June 9, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Digital image editing using curvilinear perspective" was invented by Karan Batra (Shamli, India), Prem Kumar (Jalandhar City, India), Navodit Madal (Meerut, India) and Ayush Bansal (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curvilinear perspective digital image editing techniques are described. In one or more examples, a digital image and a curvilinear grid are presented for display in a user interface. The curvilinear grid depicts a plurality of axis connecting vanishing points as indicating a curvilinear perspective. An input is received defining an edit operat...