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Adobe was granted a patent for automated document generation.

What happened

In September 2026 Adobe patented software for creating consistently styled documents, useful in digital publishing and document-authoring workflows.

Source

patents.google.comSep 29, 2026

US patent US12748809

Systems and methods for document generation

Abstract

Systems and methods for document generation are provided. One aspect of the systems and methods includes identifying, by a style extractor, a document fragment comprising a first style element of a first style category; computing, by a style generator, a reward function based on a correlation value between the first style element and a second style element of a second style category different from the first style category, wherein the correlation value is based on correlations between style elements in a plurality of historical document fragments; selecting, by the style generator, the second style element based on the reward function; and generating, by a document generator, a modified document fragment that includes the first style element of the first style category and the second style element of the second style category.

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Grant date
Sep 29, 2026
Inventors
4
Tech area
software / computing
Patent number
US12748809

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People

  • Shunan GuoInventor
  • Yeuk-Yin ChanInventor
  • Eunyee KohInventor
  • Caroline Jiwon KimInventor
  • Cole Edward ConnellyInventor
  • Andrew Douglas ThomsonInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
G06F 16/93 (Electric digital data processing)
USPTO assignee
ADOBE INC.
What the invention does
A system that learns how different formatting choices relate to one another and uses those relationships to generate coordinated document styles.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Software
  • Content Management

Technologies named

  • document generation
  • style extraction
  • document authoring

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