US Patent Issued to Apptimize on June 24 for "Runtime application modification of a user interface" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,209, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apptimize LLC (San Francisco).

"Runtime application modification of a user interface" was invented by James Brandon Koppel (Cambridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application includes main program code, but also a call handler and an update module. When a specific method or function in the operating system is called, the call is redirected to the call handler in the application. The call handler then calls the function in the operating system. The function retrieves an object to present in a user interface to the application. But before the object is rendered, program control is re...