ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,911, issued on June 23, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system for reconfiguring a plurality of icons on a graphical user interface to optimize memory usage and data transmission efficiency" was invented by Robert Peter Sandt Jr. (Park Ridge, N.J.) and Jared John Grunig (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconfiguring a plurality of icons on a graphical user interface to optimize memory usage and data transmission efficiency, wherein each of the plurality of icons is associated with an entity, the method comprising: receiving a data set for a plurality of fir...