ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,559, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GRASS VALLEY CANADA (Montreal).

"System and method for generating customized user interface with multi-application functionality" was invented by Ian Fletcher (Castle Donington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control surface designer (CSD) module may generate a configuration user interface that lists a plurality of applications and their respective plurality of commands, wherein the configuration user interface includes, for each command of the respective plurality of commands, parameters of specific command instances. The CSD module may receive, via the configuration user inter...