US Patent Issued to Apple on April 8 for "Highlighting reading based on adaptive prediction" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,261, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Highlighting reading based on adaptive prediction" was invented by Daniel W. Busbridge (Letchworth Garden, Great Britain), Jason Ramapuram (Cambridge, Great Britain), Russell Y. Webb (Cohasset, Mass.) and Paul G. Puskarich (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes predicting, using a language model, one or more words from a first set of words expected to be difficult for a reader, and providing the first set of words for display to the reader. The predicted one or more words in the first set of words are displayed differently from...