ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,674, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Drag and drop quick actions" was invented by Spencer Villars (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provide a mechanism for displaying and initiating actions and workflows for objects with a single drag-and-drop operation in association with a content management system. Drag operations may be monitored to trigger monitoring of a pointer performing the drag operation to detect whether the pointer is within a threshold distance from a chosen aspect, such as a system tray icon, and/or an area of a temporary invisible window. Upon detection, the ...