ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,416, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Progressive refresh of user interface screens" was invented by Yamit Mody (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hon-Sum Matthew Ng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Damia Ferrer Biosca (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Adam Golab (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may include determining user interface (UI) screens of an application that have been navigated to by way of a UI of the application. The embodiment may also include receiving an interaction with a UI component of a current UI screen of the UI screens and, based on receiving the interaction, determi...