ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,519, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating digital associations between documents and digital calendar events based on content connections" was invented by Kavitha Radhakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Timo Mertens (Millbrae, Calif.), Neil Sethi (San Francisco), David Stinnette (San Francisco), Justin Hileman (San Francisco) and Adam LaFave (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to generating and utilizing digital associations between digital documents and digital calendar events based on determined content connections. For example, one or more embodiments sug...