ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,765, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Dropsite for shared content" was invented by Tushar Jain (San Francisco), Yi Wei (San Francisco) and Michael Dwan (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for a dropsite. In some embodiments, information is received on a creation location and a date and time of creation of a content item, and a determination is made if (i) the date and time of creation is within a predefined span of time, and (ii) the creation location is within a predefined geographical area to permit association of the content item with a shared folder whose inclus...