ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,008, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FASETTO INC. (Phoenix).

"Systems and method for cubic graphical user interfaces" was invented by Coy Christmas (Superior, Wis.), Luke Malpass (Stoke-on-trent, Great Britain) and Parnell Lutz (Duluth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for cube graphical user interfaces are disclosed. A cube may be a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional object. The cube may contain a file or application on each face of the cube. The cube may be rotated such that a user may view the desired cube face. The various cube faces may be user profiles, a...