ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,938, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Corel Corp. (Ottawa).
"Digital imaging of granular media in graphics applications" was invented by Stephen Bolt (Stittsville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a graphics application, receive a selection of a first granular medium tool (GMT), receive a first input associated with the first GMT, the first input comprising one or more first input values characterizing placement of a first amount of a granular medium (GM) on a virtual drawing canvas, acces...