ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,315, issued on May 19, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Face-aware scale magnification video effects" was invented by Anh Lan Truong (San Francisco), Deepali Aneja (Seattle), Hijung Shin (Natick, Mass.), Rubaiat Habib (Seattle), Jakub Fiser (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Kishore Radhakrishna (San Jose, Calif.), Joel Richard Brandt (Los Angeles), Matthew David Fisher (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zeyu Jin (San Francisco), Kim Pascal Pimmel (Seattle), Wilmot Li (Seattle) and Lubomira Assenova Dontcheva (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media...