ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,036, issued on June 10, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing digital assets stored as components and packaged files" was invented by Stanley J Switzer (San Francisco), Roey Horns (Seattle), Oliver I Goldman (Seattle), Michael Vitrano (New York) and Julian R Wixson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved digital asset management and synchronization of a digital asset stored either within a component database or a packaged file. For example, the digital asset synchronization system enables a set of components that ...