ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,848, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automated collaboration" was invented by Priya Nayak (San Francisco) and James Watts (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for suggesting collaboration between a plurality of users of a communication system includes identifying a first document pertaining to a first event associated with a first user, determining that collaboration is allowed for the first document, identifying a second document having a collaborative similarity with the first document and pertaining to a second event and associated with a second user, generating a collaboration ...