ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,584, issued on May 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems for efficiently generating blend objects" was invented by Harish Kumar (Noida, India) and Apurva Kumar (Nehru Nagar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of systems for efficiently generating blend objects, a computing device implements a blending system to assign unique shape identifiers to objects included in an input render tree. The blending system generates a shape mask based on the unique shape identifiers. A color of a pixel of a blend object is computed based on particular objects of the objects that contribute to the blend objec...