ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,466, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Accessibility-enabled application switching" was invented by Ajay Jain (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Kienle (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accessibility-enabled application switching are provided. In an example method, a processing device receives a status indication of a screen reader browsing content using a first application. The processing device receives a context switch indication from the screen reader, including a designation of a second application as a target application based on context switch accessibility code. The proces...