US Patent Issued to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton on Feb. 25 for "Graphically representing related record families using a phantom parent node" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,879, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (Atlanta).

"Graphically representing related record families using a phantom parent node" was invented by Mark P. Mathison (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments use a phantom apex node to graphically illustrate a plurality of hierarchical records. Each record includes a parent field, and an entry in the parent field identifies a parent record of a given record. The parent record is higher in hierarchy than the given record. Embodiments identify record(s) that have no entry in the parent field. A phantom apex record is added to the da...