US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Content association in file editing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,824, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Content association in file editing" was invented by Melita Saville (Winchester, Great Britain), Timothy Andrew Moran (Southampton, Great Britain), Clive Harris (Nr. Alersford, Great Britain), Caroline Sarah Courtenay McNamara (Hants, Great Britain), Natasha Katherine Mckenzie-Kelly (Salisbury, Great Britain) and Abigail Rose Bettle-Shaffer (Andover, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer technology for content association in file editing. The method includes providing one or more files including a first element currently bei...