US Patent Issued to Canva on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for creating and using deformable text shapes" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,006, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for creating and using deformable text shapes" was invented by Kevin Andrew Wu Won (Surry Hills, Australia), Abiodun Quadri Adekunle (Surry Hills, Australia) and Arran Peter Lomas (Surry Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method includes receiving a user input selecting a deformable text shape that is defined by shape data that includes path data, slice data, viewbox data, and textbox data. A further user input that resizes the viewbox of the deformable text shape is re...