ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,516, issued on May 26, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Classification and augmentation of unstructured data for autofill" was invented by Shrey Shah (Redmond, Wash.), Timothy Franklin (Seattle), Irfan Ahmed (Hyderabad, India), Bryan Miller (London) and Anand Balachandran (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for classifying text strings, augmenting text strings, and identifying classified text strings for intelligent autofill are provided. A fact store may be populated with facts from a plurality of data sou...