ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,707, issued on July 1, was assigned to Open Workspace LLC (Highland Park, Ill.).
"System-independent user interface framework" was invented by David Adler (Highland Park, Ill.) and Brandon Winsor (Duluth, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve: generating, for display upon a graphical user interface, a workspace that includes a background arrangement and a virtual panel arrangement, wherein the virtual panel arrangement is embedded within the workspace and non-overlapping with the background arrangement; generating, for display within the background arrangement, representations of resources, wherein the resources...