ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,617, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visual reordering of partial vector objects" was invented by Harish Kumar (Noida, India) and Praveen Kumar Dhanuka (Howrah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of systems for visual reordering of partial vector objects, a computing device implements an order system to receive input data describing a region specified relative to a group of vector objects that includes a portion of a first vector object and a portion of second vector object. A visual order as between the portion of the first vector object and the portion of the second vector objec...