ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,168, issued on June 24, was assigned to ALTERA DIGITAL HEALTH INC. (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).

"GUI with axes having directional indicators of the absence of data" was invented by Jefferson Wilson (Williston, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying a GUI including a multidimensional array of axes includes constructing a multidimensional array of axes, each axis comprising a plurality of entities located therealong, each entity configured to contain data for display on the axis; for a particular axis of the axes of the array, determining an entity first encountered in a first direction along the particular axis which cont...