ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,166, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Auto-suggestion with rich objects" was invented by Zhiwei Yu (Beijing), Chin-Yew Lin (Redmond, Wash.), Xi Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Borje Karlsson (Beijing), Jinge Yao (Beijing) and Shuang Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a solution is proposed for auto-suggesting. In this solution, a trigger indication for suggesting is provided based on an input sentence. In response to the trigger indication being confirmed, a suggestion for the sentence is provided and the sugg...