US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Automated content management in computer applications with focus mode" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,045, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated content management in computer applications with focus mode" was invented by Richard Malcolm Banks (Chertsey, Great Britain), Sian Elizabeth Lindley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Eva Britta Karolina Burlin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Max Jan Meijer (Atlanta) and John Michael Winn (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising detecting, by an application in a focussed operating mode, a trigger event; determining, using machine learning (ML) content classification applied to content a...