ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,858, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Modifying digital images utilizing intent deterministic user interface tools" was invented by Kevin Gary Smith (Lehi, Utah), Matthew Joss (Seattle) and Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images using an intelligent user interface tool that determines the intent of a user interaction. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems receive, via a graphical user interface of a client device, a user interaction with a ...