US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Dynamic management of data with context-based processing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,169, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic management of data with context-based processing" was invented by Colette Van Dyne (Bothell, Wash.) and Jeffrey Friedberg (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using contextual information to manage data that is subject to one or more data-handling requirements are described herein. In many instances, the techniques capture or depend upon the contextual information surrounding the creation and/or subsequent actions associated with the data. The contextual information may be updated as the data is handled in...