ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,296, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Virtual whiteboard platform having compact user selection controls" was invented by Natalie Kate Johnson (Sydney), Mario Nebl (Sydney) and Jonathan George Katahanas (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual whiteboard may be configured to generate compressed user menus. A whiteboard has a graphical user interface with an unstructured canvas region that renders graphical objects generated by multiple users. In response to receiving a selection of at least one graphical object, a menu control with a first array of may be d...