Patents by Inventor Shawna Julia Davis

Shawna Julia Davis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Text input window with auto-growth
    Patent number: 8922479
    Abstract: A user input panel dynamically expands to accommodate user input, such as handwritten or keyboard input. Expansion may occur in one or two out of four possible directions, depending upon the language to be written or typed. For example, when writing English words, the input panel may expand to the right as the user writes and then downward when the input panel has fully expanded rightward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest L. Pennington, II, Adrian James Garside, Jeffrey West Pettiross, Shawna Julia Davis, Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski