ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,831, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image based command classification and task engine for a computing system" was invented by Bharath Cheluvaraju (Bangalore, India), Saheel Ram Godhane (Warud, India), Nishan Hassan (Delhi, India) and Sheetal Shamsher Sethi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer storage media for determining a command (e.g., intent) of an image based on image data features. A task associated with the determined command is generated based on a portion of the image data features. Task entities corresponding t...