ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,171, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ergonomic keybinding adjustments from user behavioral input" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Tyler Hansen (Tucson, Ariz.) and Logan Bailey (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are provided herein for making ergonomic keybinding adjustments based on user behavioral inputs in a computing environment having one or more processor devices. One or more metrics of a user input are measured. If the one or more metrics are determined to exceed a predetermined threshold, one or more of the user behavio...