US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Dec. 9 for "Collection of transaction receipts using an online content management service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,916, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Collection of transaction receipts using an online content management service" was invented by Daniel Bernard (San Francisco), Eric Feng (San Francisco), Marty Hu (San Francisco) and Veronica Zheng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online content management service can collect and store receipts for a user from a variety of sources, including images captured by the user, messages received for the user at a messaging service or message management service, and/or receipts directly uploaded to the online content management service by a merchant. In the c...