ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,619, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Filling overlapping areas of a vector graphical representation using a simple graph" was invented by Ankit Phogat (Noida, India), Vishwas Jain (Bengaluru, India), Vineet Batra (Delhi, India), Souymodip Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India) and Kevin Wampler (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to receiving an input corresponding to a fill for a vector graphical representation including an overlapping area. Aspects and features further involve converting the vector graphical representation to a simple graph...