ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,700, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Diagram navigation" was invented by Horst Heistermann (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for navigating interactive diagrams are provided. In one technique, a first content of an interactive diagram is presented in a content display area of a user interface. The interactive diagram also includes second content that is outside the content display area of the user interface. A boundary is identified that encapsulates the first content and the second content. While displaying a scrolling control on the user interface, fi...