ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,587, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Determining user interaction with user interface elements" was invented by Ryan Nicholas Comer (Round Rock, Texas), Jake Mitchell Leland (Round Rock, Texas), Erik Summa (Austin, Texas) and Jyoti Jasmine Luu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that adjusts a user interface (UI) of a game in a non-obtrusive way to a user. The system may determine the least obtrusive area(s) on the screen for a UI element game overlay to be presented, at least in part by determining an importance level for ar...