ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,522, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Semantic user input" was invented by Eyal Ofek (Redmond, Wash.), Michel Pahud (Kirkland, Wash.), Edward Sean Lloyd Rintel (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mar Gonzalez Franco (Seattle) and Payod Panda (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to semantic user input for a computing device. In examples, user input is identified and processed to identify and automatically perform an associated semantic action. The semantic action may be determined based at least in part on an environmental cont...