ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,611, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for digital ink generation and editing" was invented by Andrii Maksai (Zurich), Henry Rowley (Cupertino, Calif.), Jesse Berent (Geneva) and Claudiu Musat (Vaud, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for editing and generating digital ink. The present technology may provide systems and methods for training a handwriting model to generate digital ink that is stylistically and visually consistent with an original handwriting input, but which incorporates one or more changes to the text of the original handwriting inp...