ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,921, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Representation learning for continuous vector graphics" was invented by Defu Cao (Los Angeles), Zhaowen Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating representations for vector graphics are described. Embodiments are configured to obtain semantic information and geometric information for a vector graphics image. The semantic information describes individual segments of the vector graphics image, and the geometric information describes geometric relationships among the...