ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,638, issued on May 13, was assigned to Asana Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods to facilitate interaction with a collaboration environment based on assignment of project-level roles" was invented by Tyler Jeffrey Beauchamp (Bismarck, N.D.), Micah Hanan Fenner (San Francisco), Reyana Fayyaz (San Francisco) and Jocelyn Karlan Newman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to facilitate interaction with a collaboration environment based on assignment of project-level roles are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; o...