ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,973, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating and managing multilocational data blocks" was invented by Udara Jayawardena (Toronto) and Haishan Qian (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and managing multilocational data blocks, generating and summarizing content blocks within a virtual space interface, and generating and providing a content block browser as part of a virtual space platform. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a multilocational data block that incl...