ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,197, issued on May 20, was assigned to ISSUU INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating social assets from electronic publications" was invented by Alette Holmberg-Nielsen (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Sturino (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joe Hyrkin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Slavko Krucaj (Palo Alto, Calif.), Slawomir Smiechura (Palo Alto, Calif.), Erik Juhl (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Erika Fogarty (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating a social asset from an electronic publication. The system includes providing a template having a set of reserve spaces for elements. The sy...