ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,099, issued on March 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning collaboration techniques" was invented by Robert W. Burke Jr. (Georgetown, Texas), Ronald Oribio (Austin, Texas), Michele Saad (Austin, Texas) and Irgelkha Mejia (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feedback management subsystem receives, from a first user, first text comprising commentary on an item. The feedback management subsystem receives, from the first user, instructions to request commentary on the item from a second user. Responsive to receiving the instructions to request commentary from the second user, a communication s...