US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Character recognition on a computing device" (California, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,109, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Character recognition on a computing device" was invented by Joe Howard (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan S. Dixon (Redwood City, Calif.), Joshua McGlinn (Mooresville, N.C.), Jonathan Lochhead (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Benjamin W. Keighran (Palo Alto, Calif.), William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Elbert D. Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Jeffrey L. Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Jennifer L. C. Folse (San Francisco) and Lynne Kress (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of tou...