ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,535, issued on April 7.

"Editing user interfaces using free text" was invented by Nikolas Louis Ciminelli (Buffalo, N.Y.), Tom Zeev Jacob Palny (Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel) and Ron Zass (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for editing user interfaces from free text and/or sketches are provided. Digital data associated with a design of a user interface may be received. A presentation of the user interface based on the design may be caused. A selection of a portion of the user interface may be received. A textual input in a natural language and/or a sketch may be r...