ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,738, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Autocorrect candidate selection" was invented by Aman Singh (Dublin), James Cogley (Dublin), Andrew Donohoe (Dublin) and Enrico Cadoni (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving textual content from a first application on a first client device associated with a first user for analysis by a writing assistant configured to provide suggestions for improving the textual content. The textual content is analyzed by one or more NLP models configured to receive the textual content as an input and to provid...