ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,939, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamically providing a macro to a user based on previous user interactions" was invented by Sneha Ashok (San Jose, Calif.), Cliff Kuang (San Francisco) and Mugurel-Ionut Andreica (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to providing a macro to a user to instruct the user regarding how to perform an action. When a user submits a request to perform an action, an option is provided that indicates a macro is available. Upon selecting the macro, one or more elements are displayed, with a corresponding application displayed in ...