ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,295, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and software for bundle-based content organization, manipulation, and/or task management" was invented by Aniket Kittur (Pittsburgh) and Joseph C. Chang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for assisting one or more users in organizing content-items, such as location information (e.g., URLs) for online information resources (e.g., webpages) and clips taken from information resources, accessed via content-access software, such as one or more web browsers, using a content item-bundle primitive that allows users to create, build, manipu...