US Patent Issued to Shopify on May 26 for "System and method for determining factors affecting data associated with user interface features" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,051, issued on May 26, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"System and method for determining factors affecting data associated with user interface features" was invented by Christopher Wu (Toronto) and Medhat Husni Kabbara (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to determine factors providing inputs that affect values of associated data are provided. The method includes detecting incorporation in a user interface of a user interface feature having associated data; determining, from a data dependency model comprising a representation of a directed graph having nodes representing factors, the factors including at...