US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "Interactive notification panels in a computing system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,341, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interactive notification panels in a computing system" was invented by James Henry Lewallen Jr. (Fall City, Wash.) and Christopher Lee Mullins (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least ...