ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,400, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unified multilingual command recommendation model" was invented by Yating Zheng (Redwood City, Calif.), Shuo Li (Newton, Mass.), Yijia Xu (Chicago), Sandip Nath (Redmond, Wash.), Duc Mai Thanh Le (Brookline, Mass.), Priyanka Subhash Kulkarni (Seattle), Manan Sanghi (Bellevue, Wash.), Pamela Bhattacharya (Redmond, Wash.) and Jignesh Shah (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for one or more application command recommendations may include receiving a search query, the search query being an in-application assistance...