ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,889, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modifying paths in digital vector images by snapping to similar path geometries" was invented by Ashish Jain (Delhi, India) and Arushi Jain (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for modifying paths in digital vector images according to similar path geometries in the digital vector images. The disclosed system generates a path cache comprising path information for a plurality of connected path sets within a digital image. The disclosed system also determines, from the plura...