US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 18 for "Tilt-responsive techniques for sharing content" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,140, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tilt-responsive techniques for sharing content" was invented by Kenneth P. Hinckley (Kirkland, Wash.), Michel Pahud (Kirkland, Wash.), Nathalie M. Riche (Issaquah, Wash.), Molly Nicholas (Berkeley, Calif.), Chunjong Park (Seattle) and Nicolai Marquardt (Stevenage, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for sharing a content item from a secondary computing device to a primary computing device based on a tilt position of the secondary computing device. A sensor on the secondary computing device determi...