ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,405, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating a model application comprising discrete model functions" was invented by Richard Chan (Flushing, N.Y.), Jennifer Gradone (San Francisco), Theo Richardson (Toronto) and Hiten Shah (Redwood City, Calif.).

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 a model application comprising one or more discrete model functions classified into a function category comprising a sense category, a reason category, or an act category. In some embodiments, the disclosed sy...