ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,791, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Predictive reporting system for digital inking" was invented by Anatoly Tsvetov (Kfar-Yona, Israel), Roei Shlomo Menashof (Netanya, Israel) and Oren Istrin (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predictive reporting of digital inking data is disclosed herein. An inking input predictor is employed on both a digitizer and a host computer. Reports are sent when the error between a predicted and an actual report exceeds a threshold. The predictive reporting of inking data reduces the number of reports sent by the digitizer to the host co...