US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Data input system with online learning" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,028, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data input system with online learning" was invented by Douglas Alexander Harper Orr (Brentwood, Great Britain), Juha Iso-Sipila (London), Marco Fiscato (London), Matthew James Willson (London) and Joseph Osborne (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data input system is described for inputting text items to an electronic device. The data input system has a store holding a vocabulary of embeddings of text items, each embedding being a numerical encoding of a text item. The data input system receives user input comprising a sequence of o...