ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,961, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating typographic decorations" was invented by Arushi Jain (Delhi, India) and Praveen Kumar Dhanuka (Howrah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of present disclosure, in one or more embodiments, receives selections of first and second points for a path. The first point is at a first position and the second point is at a second position in a digital design document. The system identifies a glyph of text nearest a location of the first position and determines a geometry of the glyph. The system determines a first parametric value of the geometry of ...