ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,187, issued on June 24, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Scope-based visual-programming mechanism" was invented by Kurtis Michael Schmidt (Port Moody, Canada) and Matthew Sean Halliday (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual-programming tool provides an encapsulation mechanism configured to operate as a discrete section of a graph corresponding to a program in a visual-programming language. The encapsulation mechanism is configured to bind control flow of the visual-programming language to the encapsulation mechanism, determine logic associated with an encapsulated section of the graph,...