ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,003, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Collaborative editing of vector graphics" was invented by Vishwas Jain (Bengaluru, India), Vineet Batra (Delhi, India), Souymodip Chakraborty (Karnataka, India), Kevin Wampler (Seattle) and Ankit Phogat (Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Graphical constructs are efficiently described by integer-based identifiers, and graphical constructs of the same type are stored in a definitional component. Each client maintains both a pending state representation and a synchronized state representation of the graphical design to independently track the state of the re...