US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Hot desk device and method for hybrid environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,855, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hot desk device and method for hybrid environment" was invented by Prerana Dharmesh Gambhir (San Jose, Calif.), Prayank Mathur (Redmond, Wash.), Ashish Mehta (Redmond, Wash.), Kruthika Ponnusamy (Redmond, Wash.), Sandhya Rajendra Rao (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sarah Leslie Sutton (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared computer device configured to receive a reservation request associated with a user at the shared computer device to reserve a predetermined period of time for usage of the shared computer device, receive an input from ...