ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,135, issued on Nov. 18.

"Interaction with a field sidebar for field information panel display" was invented by Divanny I. Lamas (San Francisco), Marc Vincent Robichaud (San Francisco) and Carl Sterling Yestrau (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event limited field picker for a search user interface is described. In one or more implementations, a service may operate to collect and store data as events each of which includes a portion of the data correlated with a point in time. Clients may use a search user interface perform searches by input of search criteria. Responsive to receiving search criteria, the service may op...