ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,586, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MyScript (Nantes, France).

"Resolving conflicts during synchronization of document objects" was invented by Jean-Nicolas Guiavarc'h (Nantes, France), Luc Potage (Nantes, France), Guillaume Aujay (Nantes, France) and Cedric Coulon (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method implemented by a first device (DV1) cooperating with a cloud (CL) of at least one server for resolving a synchronization conflict over different versions of a document object comprising at least one content file and one object descriptor file (ODF1). The method comprising obtaining a first v...