US Patent Issued to Google on April 1 for "Systems and methods for efficient multimodal input collection with mobile devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,702, issued on April 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for efficient multimodal input collection with mobile devices" was invented by Donald A. Barnett (Monroe, Wash.) and Corbin Alexander Cunningham (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for multimodal input collection. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to efficient and intuitive multimodal input collection for mobile devices. As an example, a mobile computing system (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, a wearable device, etc.) can display a lock screen interface at a display device associated with...