US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on July 8 for "Systems and methods for data collection using workflow forms" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,905, issued on July 8, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods for data collection using workflow forms" was invented by Kyle Anthony Aziz (Kitchener, Canada), Ryan David Steeves (Kitchener, Canada) and Gary Clayton Cowan (Talahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cloud-based file sharing, where templates are provided for creating workflow instances which enable the sharing of managed objects. Reusable workflow templates are stored in the repository of a cloud-based file sharing system as objects that define components of the workflow, or placeholders for these components....