US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Multi-modal cursor and systems for switching modes of a cursor" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,854, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-modal cursor and systems for switching modes of a cursor" was invented by PalaniRaj Kaliyaperumal (Redmond, Wash.), Kuralmani Elango (Bothell, Wash.), Deepanjan Bhol (Kenmore, Wash.), Jennifer Janell Gregory (Bellevue, Wash.), Christina Montefalcon Ramsey (Redmond, Wash.), Juliette Danielle Weiss (Renton, Wash.), Kyle Jay Rindahl (Marysville, Wash.), Farhaz A Karmali (Redmond, Wash.), Julie Strauss (Olalla, Wash.), Per Gronvold Mikkelsen (Seattle) and Jennifer Wang (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are...