ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,188, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stochastic color mapping to generate multiple color palette variations" was invented by Vishwas Jain (Bengaluri, India), Vineet Batra (Delhi, India), Sumit Dhingra (Delhi, India), Sumit Chaturvedi (Noida, India), Souymodip Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India) and Ankit Phogat (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recoloring a target graphic using color palettes generated using a stochastic color mapping process. One method of recoloring a target graphic using the stochastic color mapping process includes obtaining a target graphic to be recolored and a source co...