US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Detachable browser interface for context-aware web services" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,171, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detachable browser interface for context-aware web services" was invented by Kyle Matthew Miller (Lynnwood, Wash.), Hariharan Ragunathan (Woodinville, Wash.) and Tai Xin (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that implement a framework for providing a detachable browser interface (sidebar) for context-aware web services. The present framework allows for a user to detach the detachable sidebar from a web browser window and dock the sidebar to a desktop of an operating system. As a result, the context-aware web ser...