US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 16 for "Diffusion-based handedness classification for touch-based input" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,827, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Diffusion-based handedness classification for touch-based input" was invented by Adam Hakim (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Guy David Amir (Jerusalem) and Aviv Slobodkin (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided herein for determining the handedness of input provided by a user via a touch interface. For instance, for each touch-based input detected, a score indicating a probability whether the touch-based input was inputted by a particular hand of the user is generated. A ...