ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,624, issued on April 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating blend objects from objects with pattern fills" was invented by Apurva Kumar (Patna, India) and Paranjay Sharma (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of systems for generating blend objects from objects with pattern fills, a computing device implements a blend system to generate a source master texture using a first pattern fill of a source object and a destination master texture using a second pattern fill of the a destination object. First colors are sampled from the source master texture and second colors are sampled from th...