ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,597, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BrowserStack Ltd. (Dublin).
"Custom interactive element identification" was invented by Sajal Garg (Delhi, India) and Jimesh Mayank Chokshi (Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessibility test engine can receive the document object model of a webpage and analyze the webpage for compliance with a set of accessibility rules. The test engine analyzes the compliance of a webpage element with accessibility rules in part by identifying the type of element. The test engine can include a module for detecting custom interactive elements on a webpage. When several elements in a family tree...