ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,849, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Drag and drop interactions for an object tracking software application" was invented by Alexander James Reardon (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and computer programs for performing drag and drop (DND) operations are disclosed. The method includes detecting, at an adapter component of a DND library, commencement of a DND operation on a selected draggable entity in a web browser, and communicating, by the adapter component, a message to a core component of the DND library indicating the commencement of the ...