ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,623, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for facilitating a collaborative work environment" was invented by Yuhui Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques for facilitating a collaborative work environment. The techniques comprise creating a plurality of virtual rooms asynchronously accessible by a plurality of users, wherein at least one database maintains a status for each of the plurality of users indicating whether each of the plurality of users is associated with at least one of the plurality of virtual rooms; recei...