US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Content-based menus for tabbed user interface" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,045, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Content-based menus for tabbed user interface" was invented by Pooja Mehta (Redmond, Wash.), Chad Rothschiller (Edmonds, Wash.), Steven Oliver Lengieza (Seattle), Daniel Vincent Fiordalis (Seattle), Jose Luis Teran (Seattle) and Laurentiu Titi Nedelcu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements displaying a tabbed user interface comprising a plurality of tabs for navigating among a plurality of electronic content items and detecting a user input indicating a selection of a first tab of the plurality of ...