US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 25 for "Personalized text proofing using distributed services" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,189, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Personalized text proofing using distributed services" was invented by James Aidan Cogley (Dublin), Enrico Cadoni (Dublin), Colin Laird (Dublin), Shashank Shekhar Gupta (Dublin) and Olivier Gauthier (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to providing personalized text proofing. A user model that is used to personalize generic critiques for text proofing a document is generated based on user signals indicating past user actions. During runtime of an application used to create the document, the user mode...