ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,891, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating chain pull painting styles in digital applications" was invented by Tanu Agarwal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating digital chain pull paintings in digital images. The disclosed system digitally animates a chain pull painting from a digital drawing path by determining a plurality of digital bead points along the digital drawing path. In response to a movement of one of the digital bead points from a first position to a second position (e.g., based ...