US Patent Issued to Dropbox on July 14 for "Prevention of loss of unsynchronized content" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,895, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Prevention of loss of unsynchronized content" was invented by Thomas Kleinpeter (Seattle), Jiayi Xu (Seattle), Akos Albert (San Francisco), Nils Bunger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sam Jau (San Francisco), Conor Woods (Oakland, Calif.) and Aaron Staley (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective fi...