US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Categorized time designation on calendars" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,883, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Categorized time designation on calendars" was invented by Shahil Soni (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described for categorization of time blocks in calendars. A time block to be categorized on a user's calendar may be determined based on a direct user input or inference from user history or behavior. Next, a category to be assigned, a beginning, and an end for the time block may be determined. The time block may be the same on all work days, different on each day, etc. One or more exceptions to be processed du...