US Patent Issued to Gusto on Aug. 4 for "Collision avoidance for document field placement" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,835, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Gusto Inc. (San Francisco).

"Collision avoidance for document field placement" was invented by Minh Quan Dang Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Jesse Zhou (San Francisco) and Flora Jin (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Users of a database management engine may generate fillable digital documents by mapping interface elements onto form documents. When a user maps interface elements onto a form document, the user may accidentally overlap two or more interface elements. To rectify this, the database management engine may modify the position of one of interface elements based on a set of positi...