US Patent Issued to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton on Aug. 12 for "Identifying missing nodes within a graphically represented family" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,868, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (Atlanta).

"Identifying missing nodes within a graphically represented family" was invented by Mark P. Mathison (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments use a visual cue to identify a record with missing information among a plurality of hierarchical records. Each record includes a parent field and an associated records field. An entry in the parent field identifies a parent record of a given record. An entry in the associated records field identifies records that are associated with the record based on a criterion or one or more predete...