US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Transferring link context from desktop application to browser" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,210, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transferring link context from desktop application to browser" was invented by Felix Andrew (Seattle), Laurentiu Nedelcu (Redmond, Wash.) and Xiaodong Fan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transferring link context to a web browser. An example method includes receiving, by a web browser, a web address from a desktop application based on a selection of a link in document displayed in the desktop application; receiving, by a web browser from the application, link context for the selected link, the link c...