ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,412, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Semi-expanded state for visualizing content" was invented by Jean Christophe Cros (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content can be visualized using a semi-expanded state. A user interface can contain two or more shapes which contain selectable elements that generate popover shapes. A "semi-expanded" popover shape is generated in the user interface in response to a selection of an element of a first shape in the user interface. The popover contains information associated with a data object and it is positioned outside of and separate from the first shape. The pop...