ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,007, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Document auto-completion" was invented by Si Meng (Beijing), Jinge Yao (Redmond, Wash.), Chin-Yew Lin (Redmond, Wash.), Zhang Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Fangrong Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Tao Wu (Redmond, Wash.), Sun Mao (Redmond, Wash.), Vincent Etter (Redmond, Wash.), Genglin Huang (Redmond, Wash.), Jing Liu (Beijing), Peter Kurt Allenspach (Redmond, Wash.) and Bogdan Popp (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for document auto-completion. In an aspect, an instruction for creating a do...