US Patent Issued to Quora on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for soliciting an answer to a question" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,622, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Quora Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for soliciting an answer to a question" was invented by Adam Edward D'Angelo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles Duplain Cheever (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin G. Der (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rebekah Marie Cox (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A question-and-answer application with an "ask-to-answer" feature is described. The ask-to-answer feature enables any user to solicit an answer to a question from another user. Upon soliciting another user for an answer to a particular question, a message with a call to action is directed to...