US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on March 24 for "Auto-complete testing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,575, issued on March 24, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Auto-complete testing" was invented by Yi-Qun Ren (Shanghai), Kai Hu (Shanghai) and Gen-Cheng Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more characters are input into an auto-complete field. Text of a displayed list of one or more candidate items is retrieved. The text of the displayed list of the one or more candidate items is compared to a predefined candidate item. In response to the text of the displayed list of one or more candidate items not having the predefined candidate item or not being withing a defined ranking, test results are fl...