ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,737, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating predicted ink stroke information using ink-based semantics" was invented by Steven N. Bathiche (Bellevue, Wash.) and Moshe R. Lutz (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, systems and methods for generating predicted ink strokes, using ink-based semantics, are provided. Ink stroke data may be received, the ink stroke data and a semantic context may be input into a model. From the model, one or more predicted ink strokes may be determined. Further, an indication of the one or more predicted ink strokes may ...