ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,129, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Layout-aware text rendering and effects execution" was invented by Praveen Kumar Dhanuka (Kolkata, India), Nirmal Kumawat (Rajasthan, India) and Arushi Jain (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for identifying and modifying overlapping glyphs in a text layout. A method of identifying and modifying overlapping glyphs includes detecting a plurality of overlapping glyphs in a text layout, modifying a geometry of one or more of the overlapping glyphs based on an aesthetic score, updating a rendering tree based on the modified geometr...