US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Aug. 11 for "Collection folder for collecting file submissions in response to a public file request" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,375, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Collection folder for collecting file submissions in response to a public file request" was invented by Mindy Zhang (San Francisco) and Pranav Piyush (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder in response to a public file request. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can in...