US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 8 for "Friction reduction during professional network expansion" (Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,401, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Friction reduction during professional network expansion" was invented by Choo Yei Chong (Redmond, Wash.), Heidi Kenyon (Bellingham, Wash.), Neha Parikh Shah (Glen Ridge, N.J.), Deepa Shenvi Priolkar (Redmond, Wash.), Christopher Michael Dollar (Renton, Wash.), Jin Young Kim (Seattle), Aaron Nash Melhaff (Seattle), Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli (Redmond, Wash.), Wende E. Copfer (Woodinville, Wash.), Harald Becker (Seattle) and Amy L. Huang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for friction reduction during professional network expa...