US Patent Issued to Centric Software on Sept. 15 for "Drag and drop allocation in PLM" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,696, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Centric Software Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Drag and drop allocation in PLM" was invented by Humberto Roa (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Ron Watson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ravi Rangan (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes software that mimics a paper based allocation process. Business objects can be presented graphically on a touch screen, and users can allocate business objects with other business objects using a drag and drop motion. For example, a symbol representing a business object can be dragged and dropped onto a symbol representing another business object. This...