ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,791, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for automatically generating designs" was invented by David Naseby (Sydney), Gloria Lo (Sydney) and Michael Wu (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method for generating a plurality of synthesised designs based on a selected design that includes a first element. The method includes accessing design generation data that includes source data and field association data. The source data defines a first field and a first design generation record that defines a first content item tha...