US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Identifying contextual objects from web content" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,496, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying contextual objects from web content" was invented by Marcelo M. De Barros (Redmond, Wash.), Manish Mittal (Woodinville, Wash.), Vinod Krishnan Koduvayoor Subramanian (Sammamish, Wash.), Prateek Tiwari (Sammamish, Wash.), Ayan Banerjee (Redmond, Wash.) and Samir Bathla (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contex...