ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,550, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating and modifying a collection content item for organizing and presenting content items" was invented by Brendan Berman (Pacifica, Calif.), Yu-Liang Hsu (San Francisco), Dong-Jae Chung (Belmont, Calif.), Maureen Mason (Alameda, Calif.), Jessie Engstrom (San Francisco), Nicholas Jitkoff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Andrew Schamp (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate and utilize collections of content items. For example, systems and methods described h...