ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,133, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for improving gesture recognition in rendering grid-aligned digital ink on a display" was invented by Jonathan Harry Parker (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein generally relate to rendering grid-aligned digital ink on a display of a computing device. In an example, the computing device determines grid pattern data associated with a grid pattern displayed on the display and a velocity of the input. Based the grid line pattern data and the velocity, the computing device may render digita...