US Patent Issued to Adobe on Nov. 4 for "Image-based searches for templates" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,440, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image-based searches for templates" was invented by Brian Eriksson (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-ting Hsu (San Jose, Calif.), Santiago Pombo (San Francisco), Sandilya Bhamidipati (Mountain View, Calif.), Rida Khan (Saratoga, Calif.), Ravali Devarapalli (San Jose, Calif.), Maya Christmas Davis (San Francisco), Lam Wing Chan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Konstantin Blank (Seattle), Jason Omid Kafil (Los Angeles) and Di Ni (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of image-based searches for templates, a computing device implements a search system to genera...