ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,260, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LUCID SOFTWARE INC. (South Jordan, Utah).

"User-defined graphical cross-layout with intersection areas representing two-dimensional group membership and non-intersection areas representing one-dimensional group membership" was invented by Kevin M. Ellsworth (Sandy, Utah), Kevin J. Reece (South Jordan, Utah) and Jonathan Bronson (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a computer-implemented method to modify a displayed hierarchy of a graphical diagram includes displaying, on a display device, a graphical diagram with multiple graphical objects. The method includes receiving...