ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,405, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Assignments for classrooms" was invented by Kelly Bonney-Ache (San Francisco), Ritu Moondra (San Francisco), Calvin Low (San Francisco), Kristen Witte (Austin, Texas), David Fish (San Francisco), Ian Macartney (San Francisco) and Ben Stern (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for distributing, collecting and monitoring assignments by a content management system. The method includes receiving a request for a file request from a teacher to distribute an assignment to one or more students. In response to receiving the request, the te...