US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Share pools for sharing files via a storage service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,903, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Share pools for sharing files via a storage service" was invented by James F. Lockwood (San Francisco), Van Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaonan Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sugam Jain (San Francisco), Pavel V. Dudrenov (San Francisco) and Ori Herrnstadt (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a client-server architecture that enables file sharing between an instructor and a class. The files are stored in a storage service accessible via a network, and a separate copy of each file can be shared with each student in the class. ...