US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 22 for "Assistance user interface for computer accessibility" (Washington, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,522, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Assistance user interface for computer accessibility" was invented by Jacques Christopher Newman (North Bend, Wash.), Travis Scott Leithead (Kent, Wash.), Kurt Allen Catti-Schmidt (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Daniel James Libby (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface facilitates access to a computer resource by users having accessibility needs. In one implementation, the user interface comprises an assistance user interface (UI) provided as a supplemental UI presented in conjunction with the computer resource and which does not in...