ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,570, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vectorizing by piecewise deconstruction of object strokes" was invented by Kush Pandey (Aligarh, India), Tarun Beri (Noida, India) and Gini Angurala (Mohali, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementation of techniques for vectorizing by piecewise deconstruction of object strokes, a computing device implements an image processing system to receive an input to initiate the generation of a boundary of an object in a digital image, such as a raster image. The image processing system detects a set of visually separated but semantically related strokes that ...