ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,523, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Moving objects casting a shadow and generating proxy shadows within a digital image" was invented by Soo Ye Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Luis Figueroa (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhihong Ding (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that provides a graphical user interface experience to move objects and generate new shadows within a digital image scene. For instance, in one or ...