US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Generative collaborative publishing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,638, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative collaborative publishing system" was invented by Ajith Muralidharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aastha Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zhanglong Liu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include identifying a user of a network as a possible contributor of digital content to a document that is published via the network; identifying at least two different channels on the network that are each capable of sending, to the user, an invitation for the user to contribute to the document; for each of...