ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,070, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Providing selectable quick actions on handwritten data in a handwritten document" was invented by Markus Weber (Dusseldorf, Germany), Yoana Simeonova (Sofia, Bulgaria), Goerkem Sinirlioglu (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Nikolay Vasilev (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing selectable quick actions on handwritten data in a handwritten document is disclosed. The method includes fetching the handwritten data corresponding to strokes made by a user in the handwritten document and recognizing text associated with the received handwritten ...