US Patent Issued to Pro Quick Draw on Feb. 24 for "Vector graphic parsing and transformation engine" (Maryland, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,899, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Pro Quick Draw LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Vector graphic parsing and transformation engine" was invented by Andrew Erich Bischoff (Baltimore) and Troy Bigelow (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented that scans a vector graphics file for image elements that represent individual objects and for image elements that represent movement or actions for those objects. Objects, each possibly represented by multiple shapes, arrows, lines, or shading, are identified as parsed into a standard class definition. In one embodiment, the class definitions and the rule set ...