ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,028, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for identifying a design template matching a search query" was invented by Jarrah Lacko (Surry Hills, Australia), Danny Wu (Sydney), William Radford (Sydney) and Jin Yu (Surry Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for identifying design templates that match an input query are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a design search query; performing a template search based on the design search query, the template search returning a first template design, the first template design including a target image; p...