ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,698, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Automated assistive-technology driven accessibility testing environments" was invented by Navid Salehnamadi (Irvine, Calif.) and Sam Ranier Malek (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assistive service driven automated accessibility testing environments in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, an automated environment for testing an application ("app") using an assistive service is provided, the automated environment being embodied in code executable by a processor of a testing devi...