ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,103, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Generating interactive, digital data narrative animations by dynamically analyzing underlying linked datasets" was invented by Leo Zhicheng Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wilmot Li (San Francisco) and John Thompson (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that leverage underlying digital datasets corresponding to static graphics to generate digital animated data narratives. In various embodiments, a digital narrative animation system receives static data graphics and a corresponding...