ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,255, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Classifying and organizing digital content items automatically utilizing content item classification models" was invented by Tristan Inghelbrecht (East Richmond Heights, Calif.), Jongmin Baek (Foster City, Calif.), Ermo Wei (Milpitas, Calif.), Morgan Zerby (Kirkland, Wash.), Win Suen (Schuylkill Haven, Pa.) and Shubham Goel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilize machine-learning models to classify content items and automatically organize the content i...