ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,808, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatically assigning application shortcuts to folders with user- defined names" was invented by Aditya Rautray (Bangalore, India), Deviprasad Punja (Bangalore, India) and Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for automatically organizing application shortcuts into folders with user-defined In names. An illustrative method includes identifying a plurality of keywords associated with folders with user-defined names on a device, identifying a keyword associated with an application being in...