US Patent Issued to Freedom Scientific on May 26 for "Resolving points of interest by text stylization" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,377, issued on May 26, was assigned to Freedom Scientific Inc. (Clearwater, Fla.).

"Resolving points of interest by text stylization" was invented by Joseph Kelton Stephen (Clearwater, Fla.), Glen Gordon (Clearwater, Fla.) and Roxana Fischer (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen reader application traverses each node in a document object model (DOM) for the text stylization. Properties for foreground color, background color, font type, font size and font stylization are algorithmically reduced to an identifier. Each node in the DOM with the same identifier has the same text stylization. Unique and infrequent text s...