US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for managing digital notes for collaboration" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,289, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for managing digital notes for collaboration" was invented by Lisa M. Miller (Spring Valley, Wis.), Scott R. Fairbairn (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Heather M. Green (Woodbury, Minn.), Willem V. Bastiaens (Scandia, Minn.), Joseph C. Wintheiser (Oakdale, Minn.), Pontus Axelsson (Stockholm), Michael Rotstein (Stockholm), Emre B. Ergenekon (Solna, Sweden), Nicklas A. Ansman Giertz (New York) and Marina Visintini (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collaboration using digital notes. A facilitator starts a session du...