US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 22 for "Facilitating selection of keys related to a selected key" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,642, issued on April 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Facilitating selection of keys related to a selected key" was invented by Maxim Spivak (San Jose, Calif.), Dion M. Isselhardt (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mark S. Tamura (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for rendering additional keys on a display of an electronic device based on one or more characteristics of a user's selection of another key. After rendering the additional keys, the user may thereafter select one of the additional keys now available and rendered on the display."

The patent was filed on May 6, 2022,...