ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,976, issued on April 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Scene graph structure generation and rendering" was invented by Harish Kumar (Noida, India), Praveen Kumar Dhanuka (Howrah, India) and Apurva Kumar (Patna, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital representation techniques of intertwined vector objects are described. These techniques support a non-destructive representation of intertwined digital objects. Additionally, these techniques support editing of overlaps to change a visual ordering in an intuitive and efficient manner. Optimization operations are also implemented that remove redundancy, combine overl...