ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,399, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Interactive graphing user interface" was invented by Andrew James Barry (Somerville, Mass.), Benjamin Eric Deverman (Somerville, Mass.) and Ken Yee Chan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive graphing user interface is described. In one or more implementations, a user interface of an interactive graphing application is displayed. The user interface includes a graph having a first axis and a second axis. User input to assign a first set of data values to the first axis of the graph and to assign a second set of data values to...