US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Framework for exposing context-driven services within a web browser" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,889, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Framework for exposing context-driven services within a web browser" was invented by Kyle Matthew Miller (Lynnwood, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Evans (Clinton, Wash.), Yufei Zhong (Woodinville, Wash.) and Hariharan Ragunathan (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for securely exposing context-driven services within a web browser. An example method includes receiving manifests from hubs apps (e.g., remote services). The manifests define requested context types for the hub apps. When the web browser loads a web ...