US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Placing application windows to avoid obscuring existing displayed components" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,054, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Placing application windows to avoid obscuring existing displayed components" was invented by Benjamin David Cox (Newbury, Great Britain), Joseph Sayer (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain) and Andrew David Lyell (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for placing an application window is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a window opening event for the application window. In response to determining that the application window can b...