ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,528, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vector font generation based on cascaded diffusion" was invented by Difan Liu (Amhert, Mass.), Matthew David Fisher (Burlingame, Calif.), Michael Yanis Gharbi (San Francisco), Oliver Wang (Seattle), Alec Stefan Jacobson (Toronto), Vikas Thamizharasan (Amherst, Mass.) and Evangelos Kalogerakis (Sunderland, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementation of techniques for vector font generation based on cascaded diffusion, a computing device implements a glyph generation system to receive a sample glyph in a target font and a target glyph identifier. The gly...