ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,390, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context-based text suggestion" was invented by Daniel V. Klein (Pittsburgh) and Igor dos Santos Ramos (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating text suggestions based on context can leverage sources associated with the context to generate more accurate and informed text suggestions. For example, the context can be a user situation, such as the user is attending a meeting. Obtaining text from sources associated with the user situation can generate a corpus of text that can be leveraged for generating the context-based text suggestions."

The...