US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Intent and target determination for digital handwriting input" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,660, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intent and target determination for digital handwriting input" was invented by Haley McColgan (Seattle), John C. Whytock (Eatonville, Wash.), Roland Radtke (Brier, Wash.), Nathan P. Pollock (Woodinville, Wash.), Parthasarathy Sundararajan (Bothell, Wash.) and Elizabeth Todaro (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pen input received by a computing device may first be evaluated to determine an associated intent. For example, it may be determined whether it is intended to be handwriting input, in which case the pen input may be interc...