ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,095, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated synchronization of third-party data from within a collaborative electronic data platform" was invented by Gregory Galante (Little Silver, N.J.), Dennis Hu (Mountain View, Calif.), Yu Xin Cheng (Kitchener, Canada), Dennis Jing Jing Liang (Mississauga, Canada), Behnoosh Hariri (Mountain View, Calif.), Bikin Chiu (Mississauga, Canada), Matthew Izatt (Toronto), Miles Henrichs (New York) and Shawn Thomas Leslie (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing, by a collaborative electronic data platform, a collaborative elec...