US Patent Issued to Cricut on Dec. 9 for "Automatic layer flattening with real-time visual depiction" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,003, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cricut Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Automatic layer flattening with real-time visual depiction" was invented by Jason Ward (Oakland, Calif.), Gitta Salomon (San Francisco), Lara Beth Mitchell (San Francisco), Micah Wilson (South Jordan, Utah), Braden Scothern (West Jordan, Utah) and Matt Stoker (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing a design generating program configured to display on a screen a graphical user interface having a virtual canvas window configured to present selected content objects to be incorporated into a unique design, and a content object sel...