ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,949, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Intelligent people-centric predictions in a collaborative environment" was invented by Michael Colagrosso (Boulder, Colo.) and Michael Procopio (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting one or more collaborators provided by a cloud-based content management platform includes identifying, for a user of a cloud-based content management platform, a plurality of other users of the cloud-based content management platform that have a relationship with the user and are associated with a plurality of documents hosted by the cloud-based con...