ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,094, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems of automatically associating text and control objects" was invented by Er-Xin Shang (Shanghai), Shuhui Fu (Shanghai), Yi-Bin Guo (Shanghai) and Niv Lederer (Yehud, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of associating text with a graphical user interface (GUI) object are disclosed. Disclosed systems and methods include identifying a GUI object and a text string. A positional relationship between the GUI object and the text string is determined. Based on the positional relationship between the GUI object and the tex...