ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,047, issued on July 29, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cursor management methods and systems for recovery from incomplete interactions" was invented by Steven Boswell (Phoenix) and Sonia Dodd (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for resolving a user input. One method involves assigning a first identifier to a first stream of messages from a user input device corresponding to a first user input with respect to an application, and while a user interaction state associated with the first stream of messages is active, assigning a second identifier to a second stream of...