ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,451, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Reuse of infographics" was invented by Weiwei Cui (Redmond, Wash.), Jinpeng Wang (Redmond, Wash.), He Huang (Beijing), Yun Wang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haidong Zhang (Beijing), Chin-Yew Lin (Redmond, Wash.) and Dongmei Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for reusing infographics. In this solution, a group of visual element units is determined from a visual element set comprised in the original infographic. A visual element unit in ...