ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,818, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Readability theme generation" was invented by Tianyuan Cai (Toronto), Zoya Bylinskii (Lexington, Mass.), Michael Kraley (Lexington, Mass.) and Aleena Niklaus (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for readability theme generation. The techniques include obtaining reading formats and generating reading format digital images based on the obtained reading formats. The reading format digital images are encoded using a trained machine learning model as perceptual embeddings. The perceptual embeddings are clustered into reading format...