ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,248, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Automatic input style selection for a connected device" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Jeffrey Thomas Snow (Barrington, Ill.) and Olivier David Meirhaeghe (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) can be connected to another electronic device that is typically a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a laptop or a non-mobile device such as a desktop computer or workstation), allowing the electronic devices to be used together. This connection can be a wired connectio...