ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,701, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Shared state collaboration" was invented by Benjamin Bonnett-Brooks (Spring Hill, Tenn.), Kevin Ng (New York), Kendra Knittel (Denver), Michelle Mingrone (Washington) and Samuel Kremin (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Streaming of shared state date from a presenter device to one or more viewer devices may be accomplished by shared state of a file (e.g., state of a presentation and/or the application that is displaying Information from the file and/or data related to the particular shared streaming of the presentation) rather than a screen share v...