ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,745, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system for facilitating convergence" was invented by Heidi Kenyon (Bellingham, Wash.), Choo Yei Chong (Redmond, Wash.), Megan Elizabeth Slater (Seattle), Christopher Michael Dollar (Renton, Wash.), Wende Ellen Copfer (Woodinville, Wash.), Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli (Redmond, Wash.), Shabnam Erfani (Kirkland, Wash.), Amy Lieh-An Huang (Seattle), Neha Parikh Shah (Glen Ridge, N.J.) and Edward Michael Doran (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for facilitating convergence includes receiving a request...