ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,000, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Real time pattern preview generation" was invented by Abhishek Verma (New Delhi), Arihant Jain (Noida, India) and Holger Winnemoeller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real time pattern preview generation and capture techniques are described. In an example, a live stream of digital images is displayed in a user interface by a computing device. A real time preview of visual patterns in the user interface is then generated and displayed based on the digital images. The visual patterns, for instance, are generated by the computing device in real time using a com...