US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Cross device application discovery and control" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,773, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cross device application discovery and control" was invented by Arunjeet Singh (Redmond, Wash.), John M Sheehan (Somerville, Mass.), Kunal Gandhi (Redmond, Wash.), Sean McKenna (Seattle), Akhilesh (Akhil) Kaza (Sammamish, Wash.) and Sameer Tejani (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods cross device application discovery and/or control. Cross device application discovery and/or control can provide for simple detection and activation of applications on remote devices. Cross device application discovery and/or contr...