ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,122, issued on Sept. 23.
"Graphical user interface, method, program and apparatus" was invented by George Walters (Wellington, New Zealand), David Mcgahan (Wellington, New Zealand) and Frank Congson (Wellington, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GUI for displaying tabular data, each row being divided into cells; the GUI including a frame within which cells are displayed; in a first display state a selected cell comprises a selectable element within the cell, the selectable element being highlighted according to input from a user input mechanism, the GUI executes an action in response to a trigger input from the user input...