US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 3 for "Temporarily hiding user interface elements" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,584, issued on June 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Temporarily hiding user interface elements" was invented by Jan-Kristian Markiewicz (Redmond, Wash.), Jerome Stephen Healy (Seattle) and Tiffany Jamie Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for temporarily hiding user interface ("UI") elements, such as application windows or tabs. A request can be received to hide a UI element for a specified period of time. When such a request is received, the UI element is hidden and an identifier corresponding to the UI element is moved from a first area of a taskbar to a se...