ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,437, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LUCID SOFTWARE INC. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Online collaboration platform" was invented by Ryan J. Stringham (Herriman, Utah), Jarom Yan-Ming Chung (South Jordan, Utah), Taylor Jessica Halversen (Murray, Utah), Karl Steven Baranov (Salt Lake City), Lindsey Whitefield Martin (Salt Lake City), Geoffrey Ryan Maddox (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Sean P. McKenna (Midvale, Utah), PinEn Chen (Draper, Utah), Vasu Nephi Chetty (Vineyard, Utah), Joseph Stack (South Jordan, Utah) and Zachary Paul Luker (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method to facilitate online collaboration inclu...