US Patent Issued to Integer Health Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Tree frog computer navigation system for the hierarchical visualization of data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,291, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Integer Health Technologies LLC (Arlington, Texas).

"Tree frog computer navigation system for the hierarchical visualization of data" was invented by Scott Roloff (Arlington, Texas), William McCallum (Fort Worth, Texas) and Ken Grifno (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer navigation system that represents categories and sub-categories of material with functionally labeled objects connected in a hierarchical organization. Descending nodes represent more detailed subsets of material. Hovering the computer mouse over a node displays thumbnails of the items available under it...