US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for presenting visual content" (Washington, Oregon, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,412, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for presenting visual content" was invented by Karlo Alexis Reyes (Woodinville, Wash.), Ryan Ashley Medlin (Portland, Ore.), Efus Richman (Seattle), Ross Anthony Marshall (Duvall, Wash.), Raymond Charles Dean (Shoreline, Wash.), Kayla Louise Covington (Atlanta) and Brannon James Zahand (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of navigating visual content includes establishing an interface template including a viewport; obtaining visual content data; identifying at least one focusable element in the visua...