ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,249, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Draft message object collaboration in a group-based communication platform" was invented by Tyler Lewis (San Anselmo, Calif.), Joseph Michael McGarr (Mountain View, Calif.), Felix Rieseberg (San Francisco), Issac Gerges (Austin, Texas) and Anuj Nair (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Draft message object collaboration in a group-based communication platform is described. A request to generate a message object can be received from a first client associated with a first entity of a group-based communication platform. A first instance of a compositio...