ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,008, issued on May 19, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating folded joints for an object rendered on a digital canvas" was invented by Tudor Muscalu (Bucharest, Romania), Shashidhar Mangu (Bangalore, India), Piyush Vashisht (Pehlad Pur Banger, India) and Mrinalini Sardar (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology described herein provide for a more precise generation of folded joints for objects rendered on a digital canvas. In an embodiment, segment points are received at the canvas from a user. From the segment points, structure points corresponding to vertic...