ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,507, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney).

"Automatically detecting and storing digital data items associated with digital calendar items" was invented by Oji Udezue (Austin, Texas), Michael Cannon-Brookes (Sydney) and Steen Andersson (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises, obtaining a digital calendar item for an event, determining, that the event has begun, and in response to determining that the event has begun, accessing a location and determining which of the participants are present for the event, determining, during the event, that one participant shared a digit...