ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,071, issued on May 20, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Virtual whiteboard platform having an interface for issue object creation in an issue tracking platform" was invented by Jonathan George Katahanas (Sydney), Mario Nebl (Sydney), Cornelis Jacobus Alant (Sydney) and Christina Ristevski (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual whiteboard may be configured to create an issue object corresponding to a new issue in an issue tracking platform. A whiteboard a graphical user interface with an unstructured canvas region that renders graphical objects generated by multiple users. I...