US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 16 for "Smart find for in-application searching" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,249, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Smart find for in-application searching" was invented by HongQiao Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Bernhard Kohlmeier (Seattle), Xiaosong Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Le Yu (Kenmore, Wash.), Lin Song (Sammamish, Wash.), Hao Mi (Redmond, Wash.), Derik Bjorn Stenerson (Redmond, Wash.), Seok Woo John Kim (Bellevue, Wash.) and Robyn Sambo (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-application search service receives a query from a user attempting to locate information within a document. If a current index and current vector table do not exist, a con...