US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 22 for "Intelligent placement of a user interface element on content of an application" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,644, issued on April 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intelligent placement of a user interface element on content of an application" was invented by Sushanth Rajasankar (Redmond, Wash.), Jonah Anthony Chin (Seattle) and Harneet Singh Sidhana (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an application that intelligently places a user interface (UI) element on content of another application such that the UI element appears to be integrated and coordinated with the content of the other application and not merely overlaid on the webpage. The intelligent placement ensures tha...