ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,135, issued on March 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Vector object blending" was invented by Tarun Beri (Noida, India) and Matthew David Fisher (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for vector object blending are described to generate a transformed vector object based on a first vector object and a second vector object. A transformation module, for instance, receives a first vector object that includes a plurality of first paths and a second vector object that includes a plurality of second paths. The transformation module computes morphing costs based on a correspondence within candidate pa...