ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,534, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Artificial intelligence-powered aggregation of project-related collateral" was invented by Benjamin Gustav Wilde (Quincy, Mass.), Jenna Hong (Acton, Mass.), Aleksandr Polyakov (Berkeley, Calif.), Paul Anthony Scudieri (Columbus, Ohio), Susanne Duswald (Vancouver, Canada), Ryan Michael Lawrence (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Geraud Dominique Baigts (Vancouver, Canada), Michael Adam Scarpati (Wellesley, Mass.), Vyankatesh Manohar Kulkarni (Atlanta), Jorge Alberto Olivares Garza (Atlanta) and Jaden Noel West (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A da...