ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,666, issued on May 12, was assigned to Figma Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for providing shared sessions on a collaborative platform" was invented by Avantika Gomes (San Francisco), Emily Lin Hasham (San Francisco), Jenny Wen (San Francisco) and Nicolle Matson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples enable a shared session for a collaborative platform where a user can elect to become a presenter of a shared session where the user can share their view state of a shared content of the collaborative platform. The recipients of the shared session can participate without navigating away or leaving the collaborativ...