US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Collaborative workspaces for browsers" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,504, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Collaborative workspaces for browsers" was invented by Avi Ashish Vaid (New York City, N.Y.), Kevin Reis DiClemente (Bellevue, Wash.), Joseph Jiwoong Oak (Bellevue, Wash.), Erik J. Snead (Woodinville, Wash.), Sean O. Lyndersay (Issaquah, Wash.), Andrew J. Ritz (Sammamish, Wash.), Christian James Colando (Seattle), Mohamed Mansour (Kirkland, Wash.), Candice Poon (Seattle) and Patrick Evan Little (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for collaborative workspaces for content browsers are provided. In one embodiment, a...