ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,378, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Smartly.IO Solutions OY (Helsinki).

"User interface for configuration and storage of hierarchical data" was invented by Oliver John Basil Marlow-Thomas (London), Edward Simon Lyon (London), Anton Huzhov (Chernihiv, Ukraine) and Damir Grandich (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for configuration and storage of hierarchical data. One method comprises providing a user interface to configure different variants, wherein a configuration of a given variant comprises a specification of signals associated with the given variant, wherein a given signal comprises one or more ru...