Patents by Inventor Ryan Poling

Ryan Poling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Organizing and displaying drawing objects
    Patent number: 8659621
    Abstract: A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to scan for drawing objects on a drawing area of a graphics editing application, determine overlap of the drawing objects on the drawing area, analyze the overlap of the drawing objects and a force to repel each of the drawing objects on the drawing area to eliminate the overlap, and organize the drawing objects according to the force to repel each of the drawing objects on the drawing area to eliminate the overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Stiglitz, Ryan Poling