ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,305, issued on April 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Interactive user interface controls for shared dynamic objects" was invented by Jonathan Seth Kaufthal (Seattle), Nathan Darrel Kile Jr. (Mercer Island, Wash.), Azin Zohdi (Vancouver, Canada), Jenna Rose Ammerall (Redmond, Wash.), Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci (Bellevue, Wash.) and Maya Rodrig (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component...