US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Key points extraction for uniform resource locators" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,546, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Key points extraction for uniform resource locators" was invented by Mridu Baldevraj Narang (Redmond, Wash.), Xuenan Guo (Bellevue, Wash.), Shubham Tripathi (Redmond, Wash.), Guihong Cao (Bellevue, Wash.), Zicheng Huang (Bothell, Wash.) and Xiaodong Fan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying webpage key points for a webpage. The systems and methods present the webpage key points in a side pane of a browser adjacent to the webpage."

The patent was filed on Dec. ...