US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Document processing service for displaying comments included in messages" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,001, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Document processing service for displaying comments included in messages" was invented by Scott M. Johnston (Darien, Conn.), Mandy Richau Sladden (Lafayette, Colo.), Ian Gunn (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Nicholas Cooper (Annadale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content of a first comment corresponding to an electronic document provided by an online document service is received from a first client device associated with a first user. The content of the first comment includes a particular symbol followed by one or more characters that represent a second...