US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 27 for "Virtual collaborative space within a workflow" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,121, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp..

"Virtual collaborative space within a workflow" was invented by Jennifer M. Hatfield (Portland, Ore.), Jill S. Dhillon (Jupiter, Fla.), Cuong The Nguyen (North Richland Hills, Texas), Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Brian K. Adams (Westerville, Ohio) and Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for creating a virtual collaborative space within an intelligent workflow framework. One or more processors of a computer system identify the need for a virtual collaborative space where hu...