ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,949, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Knowledge driven pre-trained form key mapping" was invented by Souvik Kundu (Kirkland, Wash.), Jianwen Zhang (Shoreline, Wash.), Kaushik Chakrabarti (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuet Ching (Bellevue, Wash.), Leon Romaniuk (Snohomish, Wash.), Zheng Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Cha Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Neta Haiby (Los Altos, Calif.), Vinod Kurpad (Bothell, Wash.), Anatoly Yevgenyevich Ponomarev (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander T. Gorevski (Redmond, Wash.) and Mengya Hu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes generati...