ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,186, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Navigation bookmarking and reordering through optimized graphical user interface" was invented by Torian Parker (Mableton, Ga.), Wooyang Lee (Edmonton, Canada) and Logan Sheptycki (Alberta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a graphical user interface for customizable application navigation. Embodiments include displaying a list of pages associated with a software application in a navigation customization screen and receiving selections of two or more pages of the pages as bookmarks. Embo...