US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 11 for "Activity based sorting in collaborative applications" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,659, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Activity based sorting in collaborative applications" was invented by David Adam Stephens (Seattle), Shane Michael Chism (Bellevue, Wash.), Nathan Darrel Kile Jr. (Mercer Island, Wash.), Angela Kaye Allison (Redmond, Wash.), Dan Zarzar (Redmond, Wash.), Douglas Lane Milvaney (Somerville, Mass.) and Manoj Sharma (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for sorting one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, one or more activity signals associa...