ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,622, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Synthesizing visualizations for content collections" was invented by Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam (Dublin, Calif.), Christopher T Lesniewski-Laas (Oakland, Calif.), Morgan Zerby (Kirkland, Wash.), Shubham Goel (San Francisco), Sohrab Seyed Fathi (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sigalit Sadeh (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing synthetic visualizations representative of content collections within a content management system. In some ...