ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,975, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Suggesting content items to be accessed by a user" was invented by Sean Lynch (San Francisco) and Ilya Fushman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client application sends an application programming interface call to an interface of a content management system. The call specifies one or more content item search criteria. Sending the call causes the content management system to perform a lookup in a content item index to identify at least one content item that satisfies the one or more content item search criteria. Based on sending the call, the c...