ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,387, issued on July 7, was assigned to JAMA SOFTWARE INC. (Portland, Ore.).
"Live trace explorer" was invented by Kevin Pearson (Portland, Ore.), Kevin Steigerwald (Portland, Ore.) and Geoffrey Clemm (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive GUI is disclosed for viewing and navigating among sets of hierarchical data items displayed on a client device of a user. The GUI displays containers representing and containing respective groups of the hierarchical data items. The containers are displayed in at least two sets, such as rows or columns, where a first set comprises requirement containers representing requirement ...