ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,735, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Figma Inc. (San Francisco).
"Commenting feature for graphic design systems" was invented by Ryhan Hassan (San Francisco), Christa Simon (San Francisco), Thomas John Pavlu (San Francisco), Michael Harris (San Francisco) and Meagan Gamache (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method generates one or more commenting features on a canvas, wherein each commenting feature carries at least one comment from a given source. Each commenting feature can include a pin component and a comment body element. The pin component is associated with a corresponding location on the ca...