US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for team collaboration and document management" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,296, issued on Sept. 16.

"Methods and systems for team collaboration and document management" was invented by Patrick A. Townsend (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user and business collaboration and document management solution is described. The solution utilizes the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) or similar distributed and decentralized storage methods, in addition to the Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) message protocol or similar distributed messaging methods. As a fully decentralized and distributed solution, information is shared through cryptographically secure and resilient Web 3.0 mechanisms. The solution provid...