US Patent Issued on Aug. 5 for "Column-based contextual menu with form element to add commands to a search query" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,076, issued on Aug. 5.

"Column-based contextual menu with form element to add commands to a search query" was invented by Marc Vincent Robichaud (San Francisco), Cory Eugene Burke (San Bruno, Calif.) and Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search interface is displayed in a table format that includes a plurality of columns, each column including data items of an event attribute, the data items being of a set of events, each column being selectable by a user, and a plurality of rows forming cells with the one or more columns, each cell comprising one or more of the data items of the event ...