ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,504, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Xero Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Graphical user interface" was invented by Diego Granados Diaz (Wellington, New Zealand) and Hayden Thomas Doward (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphical user interface for display on a display screen of a user device is configured for display in a window occupying all or a portion of the display screen and has a first frame occupying a first frame region of the window. The first frame illustrates, adjacent to one another in a first dimension, graph visual elements each representing a respective graph data entry from a continuous ...