ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,240, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"User interaction and task management using multiple devices" was invented by Robert A. Sim (Bellevue, Wash.), Adam Fourney (Bothell, Wash.), Russell Allen Herring Jr. (Sammamish, Wash.), Ryen William White (Woodinville, Wash.) and Elnaz Nouri (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for user interaction and task completion using multiple devices. A set of devices may be used to perform a task, such that different devices may perform different steps of the task. A device management ser...