ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,490, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"User interface functionality and enhancements for commodity pricing arrangements" was invented by David Matthew Pellinger (Plymouth, Minn.) and Jeff Klock (Browerville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various data processing systems, user interfaces, application programming interfaces, and related operations for commodity financial data processing scenarios. In some implementations, a system may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to customize a financial strategy associated with a commodity delivery contract. The GUI may include an intera...