US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Difference captioning on productivity applications for low vision users" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,384, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Difference captioning on productivity applications for low vision users" was invented by Vibhav Vineet (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael J. Bentley (Bellevue, Wash.), Sameera Lanka (Redmond, Wash.), Weiyao Xie (Redmond, Wash.) and Yash Jain (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive a plurality of sample slides with various layouts, receive a plurality of augmentations, select one or more augmentations from the plurality of augmentations that are compatible with each other, apply the selected augmentations to the pluralit...