ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,072, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method of rendering user interface components based on priority" was invented by Rahul Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Jiten Singh Sadhwani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for rendering a plurality of user interface (UI) components of a UI screen based on a priority order is conducted by receiving a request to load the UI screen, each component of the UI screen being associated with a priority order, creating a data structure for rendering the UI components in accordance with the priority order, th...