ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,913, issued on June 23, was assigned to Magic Number Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Interactive patent visualization systems and methods" was invented by Nathaniel Taylor Brockman (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) and JiNan Glasgow George (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating the number, content size, type of a multiplicity of patent documents (issued or granted patent versus published pending application), distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents, market events, and expert insights based upon content of specific...