ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,251, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Content management tool for content transformation" was invented by Jeevana Priya Inala (Hillsboro, Ore.), Gonzalo A. Ramos (Kirkland, Wash.), Nathalie M. Riche (Issaquah, Wash.), Chenglong Wang (Issaquah, Wash.) and Priyan Vaithilingam (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for capturing and transforming content from a source application to a destination application are provided. In particular, a computing device may detect a capture request to capture content from a source application, in response to the capture request...