ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,263, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TRADING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC. (Chicago).

"Systems and methods of an interface for use in electronic trading" was invented by Patricia A. Messina (Chicago), Bharat Mittal (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Dejan M. Srdjevic (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for presenting and interacting with electronic trading related information on a display screen of a computer system are provided. According to one or more embodiments, buttons are positioned and compressed along an axis, where each button corresponds to a function. A button can be selected through an act...