ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,475, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System and methods for configuring event-based automation in cloud-based collaboration platforms" was invented by Annie Pearl (San Francisco), Matthew Taro Duvall (San Francisco), Joy Ebertz (San Jose, Calif.), Victor Valdez (Los Altos, Calif.) and Steven Cipolla (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or ...