Abobe Assigned Patent

Abobe Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,455,056) developed by Smith, Michael, Akkus, Sedat, Kim, Nayoung, San Francisco, CA, Raghunath, Lavanya, San Jose, CA, Kaschub, Cynthia, San Francisco, CA, Annam, Srinivas, San Jose, CA, Shepherd, Mark, Tiburon, CA, Surber, Jacob, Redwood City, CA, Ruehle, Glenn, Novato, CA, Miller, Glade, Cedar Hills, UT, Comninos, George, San Francisco, CA, and Peacock, Gavin, Walnut Creek, CA, for a “cloud-based storage and interchange mechanism for design elements.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for sharing design elements between different applications and/or devices are provided. A design element is received from a first application as multiple representations, each of the multiple representations corresponding to a complementary storage format for the design element based on a design element type. The design element is stored as the multiple representations in a centrally stored library, the centrally stored library being shared among a plurality of applications. An indication to use the design element in a second application may be received. At least one of the multiple representations may be returned, as determined by the second application.”

The patent application was filed on August 21, 2015 (14/833,006).