US Patent Issued to eBay on Dec. 23 for "Area selection-based document object model element inspector" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,867, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Area selection-based document object model element inspector" was invented by Dan Song (Shanghai), Pei Wang (Shanghai), Yufei Wang (Shanghai), Feng Xie (Shanghai), Kun Yu (Shanghai) and Xiaojie Zang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An area selection-based document object model element inspector is described. A dragging input that defines a selection area of a digital content document having a plurality of elements is received via an area selection-based inspector tool. A set of elements of the plurality of elements that is positioned within the selection a...