ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,900, issued on Feb. 4.
"Enhanced shape-based keyboard" was invented by Zeerak Ahmed (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing an enhanced shape-based keyboard to computing devices with an integrated touch screen display. In an implementation, the computing device displays a first keyboard such that the first keyboard comprises keys that correspond to initial base shapes of an alphabet. Next the computing device receives a first user input comprising a selection of one of the keys of the first keyboard. In response to the first user input, the computing device displays a second keybo...