US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Sept. 23 for "Content management system with integrated email service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,363, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Content management system with integrated email service" was invented by Samir Goel (San Francisco), Abhishek Agrawal (San Francisco), Devdatta Akhawe (Berkeley, Calif.), Renuka Apte (San Francisco), Nikhil Bhargava (San Francisco), Pranav Piyush (Burlingame, Calif.), Samir Naik (San Francisco) and Nicholas Sundin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques for combining content management system functionality with an email or messaging server. A system can associate an email with a content item, through express attachment, dire...