ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,636, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Association of display elements" was invented by Louis Amadio (Sammamish, Wash.), Keira L. Amos (Seattle), Charles Cummins (Seattle), Neel Ishwar Murarka (San Fransisco, Calif.) and Phillip Bensaid (San Fransisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for displaying a display element on a display in which a display element may be displayed responsive to a command, the display element being associated with another display element. Also, in another example, the association between the display elements is also disp...