ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,543, issued on May 27, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Virtual whiteboarding application for visualizing and organizing issues from an issue tracking system" was invented by Abhinav Kishore (Sydney), Mario Nebl (Sydney), Jonathan George Katahanas (Sydney), Natalie Kate Johnson (Sydney), Cornelis Jacobus Alant (Sydney) and Damien Clarke (Hobart, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual whiteboarding application is configured to interface with an issue tracking system to visualize and organize issues managed by the issue tracking system in a graphical user interface of the v...