ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,234, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (Toronto).

"System and method for duplicating an application state" was invented by Philip Iannaccone (New York), Walter Michael Pitio (Morganville, N.J.) and James Brown (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and computer-implemented method for duplicating an application state are provided, the method including: recording one or more point-in-time characteristics generated by prior user inputs at one or more user interface elements, the one or more point-in-time characteristics associated with a first application state of a first application instance;...