ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,328, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Three-dimensional object illumination rendering" was invented by David McKinley Cardwell (Toronto), Kowsheek Mahmood (Concord, Canada), Christophe Darphin (Lyons, France), Salvador German Soto Gutierrez (Toronto) and Inigo Quilez les (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional object edit and visualization techniques and systems are described. In a first example, a content navigation control is implemented by a content editing system to aid navigation through a history of how a three-dimensional environment and a three-dimensional object inclu...