US Patent Issued to Google on June 9 for "Input mechanism with multi-character keys" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,765, issued on June 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Input mechanism with multi-character keys" was invented by Carlos Andres Moran Madrigal (San Francisco), Shumin Zhai (Saratoga, Calif.), Zhi Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Haicheng Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes outputting a graphical user interface including: a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of character keys, the plurality of character keys including two to eight character keys; a text-editing region; and a word-suggestion region. The method also includes detecting a first user input at a location of t...