ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,718, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing data collaboration via a distributed secure collaboration framework" was invented by Sunav Choudhary (Kolkata, India), Subrata Mitra (Bangalore, India), Sanjay Sukumaran (Kanhangad, India), Priyanshu Yadav (Jaipur, India), Munish Gupta (Shahdol, India), Jashn Arora (Faridabad, India), Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin (Bangalore, India), Gautam Choudhary (Sri Ganganagar, India) and Atharv Tyagi (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implements a secure distri...