ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,232, issued on April 14.

"Methods and systems for contextual application action(s) based on previous context of another application" was invented by Babu Vinod (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, for each open application, obtain a current application state and an application content; determine one or more relationships between the application state and the application content; use the one or more relationships between the application state and the application content to determine a user intent; for a currently used application, determine a match between an application function and the user intent; and s...