US Patent Issued to Shutterfly on Nov. 18 for "System and method for customizing photo product designs with minimal and intuitive user inputs" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,495, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Shutterfly LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for customizing photo product designs with minimal and intuitive user inputs" was invented by Yaron Stein (Haifa, Israel), Alexander M. Kenis (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Roman Sandler (Haifa, Israel) and Yehonatan Yehudai (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photo product design customization system for customizing a photo product design with minimal and intuitive user inputs includes a product design module that displays a photo product design in a main design panel, a user input detection unit that can detect a first directional m...