ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,789, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Context based action menu" was invented by Aditi Dugar (Redwood City, Calif.), Sean McGee (Woodstock, Ga.), Yogesh Bhumralkar (Belmont, Calif.), Faiz Sohaib Abbasi (San Francisco), Jennifer Kao (San Francisco), Zack Littke-Smith (San Francisco), Lucas Doyle (San Francisco) and Christopher Siling Xue (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quick action menu system may be configured to perform operations that include: causing display of a graphical user interface (GUI) at a client device, the GUI comprising a display of a persistent icon at a position within...