ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,387, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting dead snapping regions and eliminating snapping guides based thereon" was invented by Vivek Agrawal (Noida, India) and Shikhar Tayal (Aligarh, India).

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 subset of the set of snapping guides that excludes snapping guides. In particular, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems identify a set of objects within a viewport and further determine one or more at least partially obscured objects within the viewport. Furtherm...