ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,159, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Progress Software Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Positional quick insert" was invented by Hui Yeng Chang (Allenstown, N.H.), Neil Kenny (Galway Connacht, Ireland), James Cashman (Byfield, Mass.), David LeBlanc (Madison, Wis.), John F. Picinich (Brookline, N.H.) and Robert Kudrle (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a system and method for obtaining a hierarchical structure including a plurality of components; determining a set of available insertion positions within the hierarchical structure, the set of available positions including a first position, where in an a...