ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,783, issued on July 14, was assigned to COURSERA INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Virtual browser cloud workspace for an online hands-on learning platform" was invented by Namit Yadav (Hillsborough, Calif.), Nedyalko Konstantinov Dyakov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Nadezhda Nikolova Petrova (Lovech, Bulgaria), Sergey Andreevich Shcherbina (Perm, Russia) and Ivaylo Petkov Tsankov (Gabrovo City, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request may be received for a guided project teaching usage of a network-accessible resource, the guided project including an instruction video explaining the usage of the network-accessible resource. In response t...