Patents Assigned to Zazzle Inc.
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Patent number: 12620143Abstract: In some embodiments, a data processing method for generating a synthetic view rendering of a custom product, the method comprises: initializing, for a digital asset, a coverage mapping array; wherein each member of the coverage mapping array represents a possible coverage of sub-pixel regions of a pixel, and can be held in a scalar instruction register of a computer microprocessor; calculating a distance of each edge of the triangle from a center of a sub-pixel using a single scalar set instruction, operating on a pair of two scalar instruction set registers; using the distance and an angle of the edge to select a member of the array; combining pairs of found members of the coverage mapping array using the single scalar set instruction, operating on the pair, to assemble a sub-pixel coverage map array; rendering the pixel using the sub-pixel coverage mapping array and the sub-pixel regions of the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventor: Leslie Young Harvill
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Patent number: 12518068Abstract: A computer-implemented method, for generating and using functional data containers (ZIGs) for designing, visualizing, and manufacturing a customizable product is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises: initiating an application for generating functional data containers (ZIGs) and causing reading a list of resources that includes ZIGs and images; generating, using product definition information from each of the sets of product+manufacturing instructions, a proxy representation, of proxies, of each set that defines a transformation translation mechanism; combining the proxies and images into a file and saving the file; in response to determining that the file is used by another software application, opening the file in the another software application to allow editing the proxies, and saving the file with the set of product+manufacturing instructions once editing the proxies is complete.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2024Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Leslie Young Harvill, Scott Burgess, Brent Burgess, Matthew Difonzo
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Patent number: 12475675Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: using a client application executing on a user device, generating a user interface configured to display one or more search keywords that are associated with a product that a user is viewing on a screen of the user device; displaying the user interface on the user device to depict graphical representations of the one or more search keywords; determining, by the client application, whether a particular search keyword was selected from the one or more search keywords displayed on the user device; in response: determining whether an object GTIF product-token, associated with the particular search keyword, matches a particular pair of a set of GTIF product-token pairs; in response to determining that the object GTIF product-token matches the particular pair, determining particular additional content based on the particular pair, and displaying the particular additional content on the user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Leslie Young Harvill, Matthew DiFonzo, Brent Burgess
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Patent number: 12475507Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for generating digital image extensions contextually based on a custom image comprises: determining a plurality of image elements in a custom image based on one or more characteristics associated with image elements of the plurality of image elements; determining a plurality of product components of a custom product; for each product component: selecting one or more first image elements based on element characteristics associated with the one or more first image elements; based on the product component and the one or more first image elements, generating a first request for customizing the product component of the custom product; transmitting the first request to an AI-based image generator to cause the AI-based image generator to generate a first customized synthetic images for the product component; including the first customized synthetic images in a region corresponding to the product component of the custom product.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Richard Peter Hottelet, Matthew Difonzo, Leslie Young Harvill
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Patent number: 12456138Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for role-based and attribution-tracking collaborative design based on manufacturing constraints is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12411596Abstract: In some implementations, a method for custom fitting and manufacturing parametric products comprises: generating a parametric model of a custom product based on past learned data pertaining to the custom product and user-specific data of a user; translating the parametric model of the custom product to a plurality of parameters of the custom product; based on the plurality of parameters, generating a first graphical representation of the custom product; generating a first user interface and displaying the first user interface; receiving a plurality of adjustment parameters for improving a fit of the custom product in relation to the user-specific data; based on the plurality of adjustment parameters and the plurality of parameters of the custom product, generating, for the custom product, a parametric fit model having a plurality of fit model parameters; transmitting the parametric fit model to a manufacturer to cause the manufacturer to produce a parametric physical product.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventor: Leslie Young Harvill
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Patent number: 12412155Abstract: In some embodiments, a system and a computer-implemented method for role-based collaborative design based on manufacturing constraints are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12406290Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises: generating a user interface configured to allow selecting a product from a plurality of products that are customizable and displaying the user interface on a display device of a user computer; receiving, via the user interface, a selection of a particular product, from the plurality of products, that require customization; in response to receiving the selection of the particular product, automatically generating a plurality of customization options available for customizing the particular product; receiving one or more triggers of a plurality of triggers, generated based on customization options selected from the plurality of customization options; automatically generating one or more corresponding customization attribute values for the particular product; automatically generating one or more digital representations of the particular product, and displaying the digital representations of the particular product on the display device of the user computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Antonio Papale, Lisa Nakano, Jason Li, Irena Pashchenko, Matt Difonzo, Brent Hubbard Burgess, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12400251Abstract: A method comprises: generating a user interface; receiving user content to be applied to a surface of a digital product; generating a product description describing the digital product; generating a three-dimensional representation of the digital; generating a texture input-light output map for the digital product; generating calibrated color layers and calibrated luminance layers for the digital product; generating a printed layer light transport model based on the calibrated color layers and the calibrated luminance layers; generating a rendering based on the printed layer light transport model, the calibrated color layers, the calibrated luminance layers, the product description, and the three-dimensional representation of the digital product; transmitting the printed layer light transport model, the calibrated color layers, the calibrated luminance layers, the product description, and the three-dimensional representation of the digital product to a manufacture to cause the manufacturer to manufacture a phType: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Leslie Young Harvill, Charles Ohiaeri, Robert I. Beaver, III
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Patent number: 12363181Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for generating customized products in collaboration with live designers is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12361382Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving an indication of a particular design style; determining, based on the indication, functional product groups that comprise a plurality of custom products having indicia of the particular design style; initiating a collaboration session between a user and one or more collaborators to allow selecting one or more particular custom products; in response to receiving a selection of the particular custom products, generating a group of customized products comprising the one or more particular custom products, each particular customized product associated with a product type of a plurality of product types, each product type of the plurality of product types associated with a manufacturing constraint of multiple manufacturing constraints, each particular customized product having shared content that all of the one or more particular custom products share; obtaining manufacturing methods for manufacturing the customized particular products; and prType: GrantFiled: February 9, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Leslie Young Harvill
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Patent number: 12314992Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, at a computer collaboration computer, first customized product data from a first plugin executing on a first user device accessing a plurality of capabilities of a third party platform; wherein the first customized product data are associated with product description data for an interactive digital design; wherein the first customized product data have been created using the plurality of capabilities of the third party platform accessed from the first user device; generating, by the computer collaboration computer, first product description data for the interactive digital design by updating the product description data for the interactive digital design using the first customized product data; publishing, at the computer collaboration computer, the first product description data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Leslie Young Harvill, Sean Narvasa
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Patent number: 12205123Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for tracking communications channels and determining triggers and actions in role-based collaborative systems is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12159335Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for generating a composite image file based on multiple images of a physical product comprises: obtaining a plurality of images of a physical product; applying a plurality of data processing modules implemented in a data flow network to the plurality of images to cause the modules to process, in parallel, the plurality of images and to generate a data structure that captures a composite image file for the physical product; wherein the processing of the plurality of images by a data processing module of the plurality of data processing modules comprises: evaluating the plurality of images to determine a type of processing for the plurality of images, generating, based on the type of processing for the plurality of images, result data for the plurality of images, updating the data structure based on the result data, and transmitting the result data to one or more of the plurality of data processing modules.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Leslie Young Harvill, Scott Burgess, Brent Burgess, Matthew DiFonzo, Robert L. Beaver, III
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Patent number: 12147659Abstract: In some implementations, a method for custom fitting and manufacturing parametric products comprises: generating a plurality of parametric models of a custom product based on past learned data pertaining to the custom product; generating a first user interface comprising at least a first graphical representation of the custom product, and displaying the first user interface on a computer display device; receiving a plurality of adjustment parameters for improving a fit of the custom product in relation to the user-specific data; based on the plurality of adjustment parameters and the plurality of parametric models, determining two particular parametric models; generating, for the custom product, a parametric fit model having a plurality of fit model parameters, by interpolating a corresponding parameter of a first particular parametric model and a corresponding parameter of a second particular parametric model of the two particular parametric models; transmitting the parametric fit model to a manufacturer toType: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventor: Young Leslie Harvill
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Patent number: 12118598Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, by a service computer, a request for a service available from the service computer; wherein the request comprises a hyperlink associated with the service and an indication of a product to which the service pertains; wherein the request is received from a user computer upon scanning a token shown on the product, translating the token to the hyperlink, and transmitting the hyperlink and the indication of the product from the user computer to the service computer; in response to receiving the request: determining customization options for the service; and causing displaying, on the user computer, a graphical user interface allowing selecting any of the customization options; in response to receiving, from the user computer, input for the customization options for the service, generating adjusted input by adjusting the input for the customization options and providing the service according to the adjusted input.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Leslie Young Harvill
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Patent number: 12101330Abstract: In some embodiments, a system and a computer-implemented method for role-based collaborative design based on manufacturing constraints are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12095834Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for generating customized products in collaboration with live designers is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventors: Robert I. Beaver, III, Jeffrey J. Beaver, Sean Narvasa, Leslie Young Harvill, Petar S. Ivanov, Parker H. Bossier, Christopher Collette
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Patent number: 12093987Abstract: A product modeling system and method are provided. On one embodiment, the product modeling system is used to model a piece of apparel, such as a shirt, with a design wherein the model with the design is used to display the piece of apparel with the design to a consumer.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Zazzle Inc.Inventors: Young Harvill, Minh Thai, Robert Irven Beaver, III
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Patent number: 12023822Abstract: Method of manufacturing a substrate with a cut thermal film comprises obtaining an input digital image of a design to be transferred to the substrate; storing the input image in memory; rendering design elements of the design as a single output image; based upon a bleed size value, a maximum number of negative areas, a maximum number of positive areas, and attribute values: resizing the image to include a border for bleed; filling transparent areas of the image with the substrate attribute values; creating a cutting path; creating a mask image; inverting the mask image; modifying the mask image to adjust fill areas around details, to limit negative areas to be less than the maximum number of negative areas, and to limit positive areas to be less than the maximum number of positive areas; creating cutting path data in memory as a vector path outlining the mask image.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventor: Young Harvill, III