ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,479, issued on March 25.

"System and methods of manipulation of shape elements using edge parameters" was invented by Louis Anthony Romero (Albuquerque, N.M.), Julian Neukom Romero (Tucson, Ariz.), Alexander Charles Romero (Los Angeles) and Aaron Michael Johnston (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a shape element library and a set of tools and scripts enabling, via manipulation of shape element parameters in a primarily graphical setting, the graphical attachment and multiplication of shapes elements to form shape element clusters."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/1...