US Patent Issued to Figma on May 12 for "Tool for arranging objects and adjusting spacing in a layout" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,591, issued on May 12, was assigned to Figma Inc. (San Francisco).

"Tool for arranging objects and adjusting spacing in a layout" was invented by Rasmus Mathias Andersson (San Francisco), Ryan Jonathan Kaplan (San Francisco), Shuaihang Wang (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Shi (San Francisco), Badrul Farooqi (San Francisco) and Dave Pagurek van Mossel (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented design tool functions are described herein for recognizing organized collections of objects in a design layout, and providing controls to manipulate, in a selected organized collection, individual objects and arrangements ...