ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,431, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Data storage and retrieval system for subdividing unstructured platform-agnostic user input into platform-specific data objects and data entities" was invented by Jonathan George Katahanas (Sydney) and Abhinav Kishore (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform-agnostic input system can render a multiuser input board user interface element at one or more frontends to collect input from multiple users simultaneously. The platform-agnostic input system can maintain an object graph based on positions of objects added to the ...