ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,708, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to METHODICAL MIND LLC (Rockville, Md.).

"Graphical user interface system" was invented by Jacob N. Wohlstadter (Potomac, Md.), George Sigal (Rockville, Md.), Edward J. S. Roques (Bethesda, Md.), Louis W. Pang (Sandy Spring, Md.), Pankaj Oberoi (Rockville, Md.), Kin Ng (Monrovia, Md.) and Michael Vock (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of interactively navigating a user through a path of menu choices on a user interface may include displaying a current menu of choices on a first portion of a user interface display. The user interface allows for selecting of a menu item from th...