ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,990, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing document edits using application state variables to synchronize multiple edits between users in a collaboration session" was invented by Edward James Hammond (Waltham, Mass.), Christina Kayastha (Somerville, Mass.) and Gal Rakhsha-Shenar (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of co-editing a design for a printed product is disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server may store tool state variable(s) corresponding to editing tool(s) included in a printed product editor in a da...