US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Handoff of executing application between local and cloud-based computing devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,247, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Handoff of executing application between local and cloud-based computing devices" was invented by Christiaan Brinkhoff (Woodinville, Wash.), Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan (Redmond, Wash.) and Sandeep Patnaik (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for handing off execution of an application from a local computing device to a cloud-based computing device. The disclosed technology is directed to determining whether and when to initiate handing off the execution of the application based on monitoring ...