ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,452, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Family accounts for an online content storage sharing service" was invented by Megan M. Frost (Menlo Park, Calif.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco) and Maria D. Ioveva (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device provides methods and workflow for setting up a shared family account on a content storage system, including the creation of accounts for child family members. A computing device supports the creation of a family account using an account on the content storage system associated with an adult family member acting as a family ...