ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,896, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Replit Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"System and method for software development on mobile devices" was invented by Laima Tazmin (San Francisco), Matthew Chen (San Francisco) and Ian Kirkpatrick (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive coding environment is provided via an integrated mobile application. The interactive coding environment includes multiple user interface input elements including, but not limited to, a text editor, a virtual keyboard, a virtual autocomplete toolbar, a quick actions toolbar, and a virtual joystick. A user interacts with the coding environment via...