ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,386, issued on Oct. 21.
"Intelligent feature control" was invented by Ryan Wayne Rife (Maple Valley, Wash.), Sharan Babu Paramasivam Murugesan (Redmond, Wash.), Patrick Roy Ruddiman Jr. (Woodinville, Wash.), Yanxi Tang (Tustin, Calif.) and Kunal Parimal Patel (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for locally executing a feature control system on a computer system are disclosed. The feature control system locally controls a feature of an application, which is also locally executing on the computer system, such that both the feature control system and the application execute on the same infrastructure of the compute...