ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,431, issued on June 30, was assigned to KPN INNOVATIONS LLC (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Method for and system for arranging consumable elements within a display interface" was invented by Kenneth Neumann (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for arranging consumable elements within a display interface, the system including a computing device configured to receive a first consumable element; calculate a first consumable score as a function of the first consumable element; receive a second consumable element; calculate a second consumable score as a function of the second consumable element; and arrange the first ...