ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,433, issued on April 21, was assigned to Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, Wash.).

"Facilitating website navigation with a personalized contextual popup menu of actions" was invented by Adam Smith-Kipnis (Seattle), Ryan Untalan (San Francisco), Lisa Mason (Newcastle, Wash.), Michael Lynch (Toronto) and Reza Ladchartabi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action selection facility for a website made up of pages is described. The facility receives requests, each identifying a requested page among the website's pages, and a requesting user for whom the request was generated. For each received request, the facili...