US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 23 for "Determining and presenting access keys for a current keyboard layout" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,832, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Determining and presenting access keys for a current keyboard layout" was invented by Daniel William Jacobs (Elancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced accessibility to access keys across a variety of keyboard layouts (or other character input devices). In particular, systems described herein involve determining access key characters to display in conjunction with selectable inputs via a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing d...