ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,368, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).
"Systems and methods for compressing vector graphics" was invented by Henrry Eduardo Iguaro Jaramillo (Sydney), Stephan Schwiebert (Sydney) and Velislava Yanchina (Byron Bay, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method for compressing a shape. The method includes: receiving input shape data defining first and second original shape commands and generating first and second compressed shape commands corresponding thereto. Generating the second compressed shape command includes generating a relative shape command...