US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Sept. 22 for "Control transfer of shared content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,400, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Control transfer of shared content" was invented by Abhishek Agrawal (San Francisco) and Rasmus Andersson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computer implemented method to manage and transfer access to a synchronized content item across multiple users includes displaying a local version of the content item in an application window of a first application. The local version of the content item can be associated with a cloud version of the content item stored on a content management system. The method also includes displaying a content item co...