US Patent Issued to Watershed Informatics on Nov. 4 for "User interface controls for visual software modification" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,719, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Watershed Informatics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"User interface controls for visual software modification" was invented by Alvin Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mark Kalinich (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for visual software development are disclosed, including: (a) generating, by a visual code editor, (1) a data model of a plurality of code elements in a set of source code and (2) a kernel for execution of the set of source code; (b) based on a subset of the set of source code, the data model, and the kernel, generating an adjustable gra...