US Patent Issued to Dropbox on April 7 for "Discoverable collaboration teams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,994, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Discoverable collaboration teams" was invented by Pranav Piyush (San Francisco), Zach Johnston (San Francisco), Alexander Shtuchkin (San Francisco) and Iolanthe Chronis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for implementing discoverable collaboration teams. In some embodiments, a user of a content management system can create a team account within the content management system. The team account can be associated with a domain of the user (now administrator) of the team accou...