ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,524, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cursor prompt interfaces for facilitating multiple functionality" was invented by PalaniRaj Kaliyaperumal (Redmond, Wash.), Kuralmani Elango (Bothell, Wash.), Deepanjan Bhol (Kenmore, Wash.), Jennifer Janell Gregory (Bellevue, Wash.), Christina Montefalcon Ramsey (Redmond, Wash.), Juliette Danielle Weiss (Renton, Wash.), Kyle Jay Rindahl (Marysville, Wash.), Farhaz A Karmali (Redmond, Wash.), Julie Strauss (Olalla, Wash.), Per Gronvold Mikkelsen (Seattle) and Jennifer Wang (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods a...