ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,556, issued on May 27, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cursor management methods and systems" 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 associating a user input with a first application based on an initial location associated with one or more messages of the user input message stream corresponding to a first graphical user interface (GUI) display associated with the first application. Thereafter, in response to identifying an updated location associated with a subseque...