US Patent Issued to Adobe on Feb. 11 for "Organizing a graphic design document using semantic layers" (California, New York, Virginia, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,562, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Organizing a graphic design document using semantic layers" was invented by Gregory Cy Muscolino (Novato, Calif.), Christian Cantrell (Sterling, Va.), Archie Samuel Bagnall (Irvine, Calif.), Christopher James Gammon (Waunakee, Wis.) and Patrick James Hebron (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for semantically organizing a graphic design document. A method of semantically organizing a graphic design document can include obtaining a document, identifying a plurality of layers associated with the document, determining a p...