ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,286, issued on April 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sharing of content" was invented by Neelesh Deo Dani (Vancouver, Canada), Roopali Vasant Kaujalgi (Bothell, Wash.), Gerardo Montoya Velazquez (Seattle), Micheal Arokiaraj Alexis Ponniah (Burnaby, Canada), Qin Wang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Christo Frank Devaraj (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accessing shared content based on a recipient's subscriptions are described. A recipient user may receive a notification that a sender user shared content. The recipient user may request to output the shared content. The system may determine which c...