ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,466, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing a digital asset repository" was invented by Erik C. Neuenschwander (San Mateo, Calif.), Jason A. Novak (Chicago), Joseph A. Tyson (Redwood City, Calif.), Dana J. Dubois (San Francisco), Jakob D. Swank (Gilroy, Calif.), Darren M. Lew (Los Altos, Calif.), Dmitriy Y. Filyushin (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Katherine B. Skinner (San Francisco), Ross F. Lebeau (South San Francisco, Calif.), Payam Mirrashidi (Los Altos, Calif.), Guy L Tribble (Hillsborough, Calif.), Jeffrey L. Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sam H. Gharabally (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...