US Patent Issued to Corel on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems relating to digital mark opacity, blending and canvas texture" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,430, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Corel Corp. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems relating to digital mark opacity, blending and canvas texture" was invented by Christopher Tremblay (Cantley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predefined mark making tools within graphics applications address initial or final stages of a stroke whilst jitter addresses the intervening section of the stroke. Whilst this allows a brush stroke to be simulated as having increasing pressure initially, pressure variability during the stroke, and ending with decreasing pressure this approach does not reflect or mimic the artist's reality. This reality is ...