ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,160, issued on May 19, was assigned to Advisor360 LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Widgetizer" was invented by John Lance (Littleton, Mass.) and Andrew Baizen (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Widgetizer allows a user to create a custom view from a data-driven application page and convert it into a widget that can then be surfaced elsewhere. The Widgetizer recognizes the types of data that the user is creating a widget for and leverages that information to recommend which layouts and elements make sense based on the type and importance of the data. The recommendations (both layout and default element settings) consider user beha...