ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,710, issued on July 1, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Creating and exporting graphical user interfaces for video game runtime environments" was invented by Adrian-Ciprian Popa (Bucharest, Romania), Timothy J. Cowan (Orlando, Fla.) and Jonathan Douglas Hayes (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for runtime execution in virtual environments of software, such as video games. The system utilizes mock GUIs, which can be images illustrating or displaying mocked graphical user interfaces, to create GUIs that can be exported into runtime ...