ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,191, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Curve offset operations" was invented by Arushi Jain (Ashok Vihar, India) and Praveen Kumar Dhanuka (Howrah, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curve offset operations as implemented by a digital image editing system are described. Input points are received via a user interface and a determination is made that a first set of the input points satisfy a condition for use as part of a curve offset operation with respect to a curve. A first segment is added to a path using the curve offset operation. The first segment is generated by aligning the first set of input...