US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus for bookmarking a portion of an electronic document" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,555, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Method and apparatus for bookmarking a portion of an electronic document" was invented by Mohit Goenka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nikita Varma (Milpitas, Calif.), Ashish Khushal Dharamshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gnanavel Shanmugam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for electronic document content bookmarking are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving user input indicating selection of a portion of the electronic document, receiving a request to bookmark the selected portion of the electronic document, generatin...