US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 23 for "Companion devices as productivity tools" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,049, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Companion devices as productivity tools" was invented by Kathryn Veronica Jean Sullivan (Redmond, Wash.), Jonathan Seth Kaufthal (Seattle) and Ian Dwyer Curry (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various implementations, tools and features of productivity applications may be shared across companion devices to manipulate a document and/or application surfaced in a user interface of a primary device. The companion devices may synchronize state information to edit or otherwise interact with the document and/or application. For example, ...