US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 29 for "Digital object animation authoring interfaces" (California, Washington, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,016, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Digital object animation authoring interfaces" was invented by Jiaju Ma (Providence, R.I.), Li-Yi Wei (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kazi Rubaiat Habib (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animation system configured for generating an animation scene that includes at least one animation stylization effect applied to one or more three-dimensional digital objects is described. The animation system includes an interface having a timeline portion and a node graph portion. The timeline portion represents various animation stylization effects as clips arranged chrono...