ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,202, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic writing style detection and rewriting" was invented by Tomasz Lukasz Religa (Seattle), Warren Aldred (Redmond, Wash.), Si-Qing Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhang Li (Sammamish, Wash.), Jesse Alexander Freitas (Seattle), Tao Ge (Beijing), Huitian Jiao (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Max Wang (Seattle) and Xun Wang (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system obtains source textual content associated with a first writing style and target textual content associated with a second writing style and provides the source textual ...