US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 23 for "Roster management across organizations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,655, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Roster management across organizations" was invented by Michael Thomas McLean (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Ladislau Conceicao (Redmond, Wash.), Priyank Deepak Sanghavi (Redmond, Wash.), Li Li (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jayant Kishorbhai Manglani (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a shared collaborative channel for collaboration are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive a request, from an originating member of an organization, to create the shared collaborative channel, the request includ...