ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,102, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Figma Inc. (San Francisco).

"Graphic design system utilizing variable data structures for performing simulations where attributes of stateful design elements are dynamically determined" was invented by Sho Kuwamoto (San Francisco), Shana Hu (San Francisco), Amanda Yeh (San Francisco), Nikolas Klein (San Francisco), Jacob Miller (San Francisco), Shreya Sudarshana (San Francisco) and Garrett Miller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is operable to associate each of a first and second layer of a graphic design with a variable data structure. The first layer includes ...