US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Processing part of a user input to produce an early response" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,809, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processing part of a user input to produce an early response" was invented by Chun Hin Nelson Siu (Woodinville, Wash.), Hosam Adel Khalil (Issaquah, Wash.), Ajoy Nandi (Redmond, Wash.), Carmen Quan (Seattle), Denis Fisenko (Redmond, Wash.), Md Nizam Uddin Chy (Seattle), Min Hu (Redmond, Wash.), Christopher Hakan Basoglu (Everett, Wash.) and Sayan Dev Pathak (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for early processing of a part of a user input to produce a response to the entire or final user input. While the use...