ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,869, issued on April 15, was assigned to PEARSON EDUCATION INC. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Plugin system and pathway architecture" was invented by Franklin Alioto (San Rafael, Calif.), Jeffrey Argast (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zack Belinson (Malabar, Australia), David Copeman (Sydney), Samir Derradji (Sydney), Amanda Newlin (San Francisco), David Rowe (Lane Cove, Australia), Kristin Sardina (Larkspur, Calif.) and Brian Weck (North Manly, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present invention provide for: storing a plurality of content plugins; generating a graphical user interface (GUI) including components for: s...