ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,163, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Object folding tool" was invented by Michal Lukac (San Jose, Calif.), Amanda Paige Ghassaei (Mountain View, Calif.), Wilmot Wei-Mau Li (Seattle), Vidya Narayanan (Pittsburgh), Eric Joel Stollnitz (Kirkland, Wash.) and Daniel Max Kaufman (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object folding tool is leveraged in a digital medium environment. A two-dimensional (2D) representation of an unfolded object is obtained, and visual cues indicating folds for transforming the unfolded object into a folded object are detected. Based on the detected visual cues, a shape ...