ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,430, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Model-based element configuration in a user interface" was invented by Jin Wang (Xian, China), A Peng Zhang (Xian, China), Lei Gao (Xian, China), Xian Wu (Xian, China), Xiang Zhen Gan (Xian, China) and Ke Du (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with regard to user interface configuration in a computing environment. An associated computer-implemented method includes initializing an element layout within a set of user interface layers for a certain user based upon random determination, wherein the element layou...