US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 8 for "Computing device having user-input accessory" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,703, issued on July 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing device having user-input accessory" was invented by Oscar Koenders (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application can be launched and operated in conjunction with a user-interface accessory (UIA). A launching engine can, using a wireless interrogator, detect an identifier of the UIA. The launching engine can determine and execute a software application corresponding to the UIA identifier. An interaction engine can, using the wireless interrogator, detect an identifier of an object. The interaction engine can detect a...