ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,793, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hierarchical interfaces for screen reader users" was invented by Lei Shi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tanya Kraljic (Ridgewood, N.J.), Ashish Chaudhary (Waterloo, Canada), Michael Cleron (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stephanie Guaman (Petaluma, Calif.), Xieyang Liu (Pittsburgh), Shilp Vaishnav (San Francisco), Nimer Jaber (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shaun K. Kane (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for hierarchical interfaces for screen reader users (SRUs). In various implementations, a first subtree of leaf nodes of a...