ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,183, issued on June 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Auto-generated collaborative components for collaboration object" was invented by Shiraz J. Cupala (Snohomish, Wash.), Daniel Gabriel Zarzar (Austin, Texas) and Daniel P. Costenaro (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a collaboration object are provided. In particular, a computing device may detect an intent to generate a meeting invitation for a meeting by a meeting organizer via a first application, provide a meeting invitation template including one or more collaborative components, receive a fi...