ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,615, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Content layout systems and processes" was invented by Gaurav Vinayak Tendolkar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Amit Srivastava (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is implemented for receiving an image of a canvas, and detecting design features within the canvas by analyzing the image. The data processing system is implemented for determining an execution of a command by comparing the image to a current image of the canvas, and modifying the design features within the canvas to generate layouts in response to d...