ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,597, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Drag and drop interactions for a browser software application" was invented by Alexander James Reardon (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer-readable medium for animating a drag and drop operation starting in a first browser window and ending in a second browser window are disclosed. The method includes detecting, in the first browser window, a drag start event associated with a draggable element displayed on the first browser window, and communicating, by the first browser window, data about the draggab...