ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,145, issued on April 14, was assigned to K. Melsh Innovative Software Inc. (Sechelt, Canada).

"Mouse and keyboard functionality for efficient extraction of content" was invented by Maximilian Hubert Schwarzwald-Schlemmer (Regensburg, Germany) and Hubert Christian Truckenbrodt (Sechelt, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Excerpting on the computer currently involves extracting important text passages from a source document to an excerpt document using Copy and Paste. A computer-implemented method and two computer-implemented applications are described that make excerpting on the computer more efficient for the user. They recognize...