ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,482, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating modified view based on identified subset of content items and providing modified view to user associated with user account for display" was invented by Nicholas Bern (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system generates a default view of content items associated with a user account. The default view is representative of an underlying hierarchical structure of the content items associated with the user account. The computing system receives a request to transition from the default view to a modified view of the content items. The c...