ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,796, issued on Dec. 16.
"Intelligent dot matrix character display with no-code menu" was invented by Michael Hawkins (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abstract is presented for a method involving a graphical user interface on serial terminal emulator software for configuring display settings of a dot matrix character display device. The method enables selection of display settings through the graphical user interface without programming code or installing proprietary software. It facilitates the creation and storage of custom characters via the graphical user interface for display on the dot matrix character displa...