ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,941, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Method and system for interaction state restoration" was invented by Dharmesh Rana (Bangalore, India), Nikita Jain (Bangalore, India) and Prannoy Katari Venkatesh (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided including a memory storing program code; and one or more processing units to execute the program code to cause the system to: receive a graphical user interface (GUI) element, the received GUI element having an initial state; receive at least one state change to the received GUI element, the state change ...