US Patent Issued to VIACOM INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 25 for "Graphical representation showing information to a user" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,410, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC. (New York).

"Graphical representation showing information to a user" was invented by Niral Parekh (New York), Uta Knablein (New York), Phil Kim (New York), I-Wen Huang (New York) and Anna Fine (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and method generate a graphical interface including a map for a set of items. The method includes identifying the items in the set of items. For each item, the method includes measuring a usage characteristic for the item at a predetermined time and generating an icon for the item, a display characteristic of the icon bas...