US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 12 for "Secure voting in a collaborative online document editor" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,032, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure voting in a collaborative online document editor" was invented by Blake Kaplan (New York), Behnoosh Hariri (New York), Ali Abdelhadi (New York) and Gregory George Galante (Little Silver, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for implementing collaborative poll elements within a document in a document editing application. A method includes: receiving first user interface input that indicates a first vote, associated with a first user, in an interactive poll element embedded in a first document; determining that the first u...