US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "System and method for automatic language detection for handwritten text" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,544, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for automatic language detection for handwritten text" was invented by Xiao Tu (Medina, Wash.) and Zhe Wang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for automatic language detection for handwritten text are performed by systems and devices. Such automatic language detection is performed prior to sending representations of the handwritten text to a language recognition engine. Handwritten inputs including one or more writing strokes are received from an input interface, and are associated with coordinates of ...