ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,175, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for implementing custom UI actions in a web application using hidden containers" was invented by Sachin Gopaldas Totale (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Swati Bhatia (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosed technology relates to a method for generating a web application. The method includes selecting a webpage in the web application and implementing a custom user interface (UI) action on the webpage. Implementing the custom UI action on the webpage may include creating a hidden component on the webpage, associating...