ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,667, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Operating system facilitation of content sharing" was invented by Ravi Gupta (Seattle), Martin A. McClean (Seattle), Man Hei Julia Wong (Seattle), Peter E. Hammerqist (Shorline, Wash.), Gabriel S. Martinez (Seattle), Colin Ray Anthony (Seattle), Srinivas Chakravarthula (Kirkland, Wash.), Jeffrey Scott Petty (Seattle), Nithin Adapa (Seattle), Jason P. Howard (Magnolia, Texas), Hanna L. McLaughlin (Seattle) and Cindy Moline (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments discussed herein are directed to improving existing tech...