ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,717, issued on March 4, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for facilitating the playback of interface events" was invented by Martin Eric Hyche (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating capture and play back of interface event data. One exemplary method may comprise providing, as a function of at least profile data, environmental data, transaction data, relevance data, and implicit data derived therefrom, a dynamic application environment, displaying the dynamic application envi...