ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,633, issued on April 15, was assigned to LINEARITY GMBH (Berlin).

"Create editable vectorized image from bitmap image" was invented by Markiyan Kostiv (Lviv, Ukraine), Sam Raven Oliver Eckert (Stuttgart, Germany), Igor Filipe Viveiros de Assis (Berlin), Ralph Theodori (Berlin), Oleksandra Boiovych (Odesa, Ukraine) and Mihai Vladimir Danila (Hilden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image is imported. The image is classified. A first algorithm from a plurality of algorithms, based on an image classification, is suggested via a graphical user interface (GUI). An input is received from a user, via the GUI, indicating that the use...