ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,727, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Automatic document sketching" was invented by William B. Dolan (Kirkland, Wash.), Zeqiu Wu (Seattle), Michel Galley (Seattle), Yizhe Zhang (Seattle), Zhang Li (Seattle) and Christopher John Brockett (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method directed to assistive document generation are described. More specifically, similar documents share large portions of reusable text structures that can be used to generate an initial document thereby saving a user time. To generate the document, an indication to create the documen...