ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,291, issued on March 18, was assigned to MakinaRocks Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for a development environment" was invented by Dae Sung Kim (Guri-si, South Korea), Hooncheol Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Hwiyeon Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sangwoo Shim (Sokcho-si, South Korea) and Byoungwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method performed by a computing device for implementing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing a development environment, the method including: setting, by a computing device, a plurality of code blocks; designating two or more execution target blocks among the plural...