ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,979, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Visualization of application capabilities" was invented by Madhan Kumar Dhatchina Moorthy (Redmond, Wash.), Christopher Bradley Spaidal (North Vancouver, Canada) and Dmitry Lesnoy (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A systematic mechanism for visualizing functions or capabilities that an application has. One or more user experience objects are generated corresponding to an application. An application definition is obtained for that application, and then multiple user experience templates are identified based on that application definiti...