ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,507, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Predictive context-based decoder correction" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums utilizing context information to create decoding feedback information to improve decoder accuracy and/or performance. In some examples, the context information is from layers of a network stack above the layers in which the decoders are present. The context information may be or be based upon information about previously received and decoded data and/or information about ...