ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,698, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Static reconcilliation of application view hierarchies" was invented by James Richard Sproch (Mountain View, Calif.), Chuck Paul Jazdzewski (Campbell, Calif.) and Leland Richardson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described that performs static reconciliation for rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application. The system compiles source code associated with the GUI of an application into rendering instructions for rendering a view hierarchy of the GUI. The view hierarchy defines graphical components of the GUI, and the...