ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,006, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for recolouring vector graphics" was invented by Tristan Lindsay Martin (Surry Hills, Australia) and Sebastian Arthur Chua (Maroubra, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method for recolouring a vector graphic. Dominant colours defined by the vector graphic are determined, and a set of file colour groups is generated by associating file colours with dominant colours defined by the vector graphic. Colour change input data defining a particular file colour group and a new colour is recei...