ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,995, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Figma Inc. (San Francisco).

"Collaborative widget state synchronization" was invented by Bersabel Tadesse (San Francisco), Sawyer Hood (San Francisco), Yi Tang Jackie Chui (San Francisco) and Michael Yong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives position data from each of a plurality of user computing devices, the position data indicating a cursor position on a collaborative user interface for each collaborator during a collaborative session. The system determines, based on the position data, whether the cursor position of a respective collaborator is within a...