ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,694, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Screen-reader accessible multiselect user interface component with dynamic state announcements" was invented by Jessica Filben (Fort Collins, Colo.), Aditi Bahri (Fort Collins, Colo.), Bill Tipton (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Soderberg (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Matthew Glissmann (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes instructing display of a user interface that includes a multiselect component having open and closed states and providing an ability to select multiple ...