US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Distinguishing pattern differences from non-pattern differences" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,960, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distinguishing pattern differences from non-pattern differences" was invented by David Ellis Pugh (Bellevue, Wash.), Mark Alistair Wilson-Thomas (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Vu Minh Le (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distinguishing pattern differences from non-pattern differences. A set of differences is identified. The set comprises a plurality of differences between first and second versions of a document. A pattern is identified. The pattern explains a transformation from a first string in the first version of the document ...