ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,403, issued on May 20, was assigned to Degree Inc (San Francisco).

"Anonymous employee engagement system" was invented by Jenna Lee (San Francisco), Sara Garcia Cabaral (San Francisco), Natalia Hess (San Francisco), Yeon Ju Kim (Belmont, Calif.), Megan McGowan (San Francisco), Michael John Neth (Wichita, Kan.), Matthew Michael Parides (San Francisco), Matthew Sacks (Portland, Ore.) and Robert Stolarz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collecting anonymous feedback is disclosed. An anonymous input toggle is associated with one or more input mechanisms. Based on the anonymous input toggle being turned on, it is d...