ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,090, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Modifying a file storage structure utilizing a multi-section graphical user interface" was invented by Hsuan Chi Wong (Seattle), Jennifer Lukban (Mountain House, Calif.), Mahlet Tiruneh (Kent, Wash.) and Yuxin Xu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media that can display icons for target digital content items and candidate destination folders within different sections of a multi-section graphical user interface (GUI) and adjust a corresponding file storage s...