ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,104, issued on Sept. 15.

"Graphical user interface for non-hierarchichal file system" was invented by Qing Quinton (Greenwich, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting various data files and permitting users to interact with those data files. The GUI presents a variety of file identifiers, each file identifier associated with a data file, and permits the user to interact with data files by interacting with the file identifiers associated with those data files. Embodiments of the present invention identify individual data files using a plurality of time values, typically the time of the fil...