US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Universal highlighter for contextual notetaking" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,029, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Universal highlighter for contextual notetaking" was invented by Fnu Primadona (Mill Creek, Wash.), Sivaramakrishna Mopati (Issaquah, Wash.) and Jason Glenn Silvis (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for interactively highlighting a region as pixel data on a screen and automatically retrieving context data associated with content of the highlighted region for contextual notetaking. The highlighted region includes at least a part of one or more windows and one or more applications associated wit...