ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,653, issued on July 1, was assigned to Grammarly Inc. (San Francisco).

"System, method, and apparatus for snapshot sharding" was invented by Alexander W. DeNeui (Sandpoint, Idaho), Glenn Jaume (San Francisco), Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.), Helena G. Jaramillo (Syracuse, N.Y.), John Z. Li (San Francisco), Jonathan L. Goldman (San Francisco), Martin Charles (Austin, Texas), W. Michael Varney (Truckee, Calif.), Timothy Andrew James (Seattle), Adam Ginzberg (San Francisco), Nathan Penner (Redmond, Wash.), Evan Brooks (San Francisco), Michael Hewitt (Moscow, Idaho), Punit Shah (San Francisco), Patrick Barry (San Francisco), Huayang Guo (Fremont, Calif.), Jason Peter Stow...