US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Dynamically configured quick actions in a sidebar" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,885, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically configured quick actions in a sidebar" was invented by Taylor Alexis Guerra (Seattle), Lia Johansen (Kirkland, Wash.), Kyle Matthew Miller (Lynnwood, Wash.), Jianjun Yan (Beijing), Yu He (Beijing) and Yang Huangfu (Jingsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating dynamic quick actions for an application in a web browser. The dynamic quick actions correspond to various functions of an application accessible via a web browser sidebar interface. When a hover event is detected in association with an icon ...