ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,038, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Generation of graphical user interface prototypes" was invented by Yuan Jie Song (Shanghai), Xiao Feng Ji (Shanghai), Dan Zhang (Shanghai), Jun Qian Zhou (Shanghai) and Meng Chai (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a prototype of a graphical user interface (GUI). The method includes acquiring a draft wireframe representing a GUI design, the draft wireframe including one or more wireframe components, and decomposing the draft wireframe into one or more component slices, each component slice including a respective ...