ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,952, issued on April 29, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Structured arrangements for tracking content items on a shared user interface" was invented by Hannah Rebecca Lewbel (Kirkland, Wash.), Isabel Sophie Sharp (Seattle), Adam Michael Gleisner (Seattle), Lindsey Conway (Seattle), Clea Allington (Seattle), Minu George (Sammamish, Wash.), Samantha Robbie Courts (Bellevue, Wash.), Margaret Arlene Grounds (Kirkland, Wash.), Scott H. W. Snyder (Seattle) and Nassr Albahadly (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed that enable a computing system to present a structured ...