ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,170, issued on March 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic organization of user activity into collections based on topics" was invented by Nidhi Shekhar Sanghai (Newcastle, Wash.), Justin Layne Nordin (Redmond, Wash.), Kyle Thomas Kral (Redmond, Wash.), Nathan Peter Pollock (Woodinville, Wash.), Anjali Sujal Parikh (Redmond, Wash.), Wei Wei (Sammamish, Wash.), Yanji Cong (Bellevue, Wash.), Xiaoli Liu (Sammamish, Wash.), Jens Erik Jorgenson (Wheaton, Ill.), Ryan Sung Jun Bae (Seattle), Steve Ku Lim (Redmond, Wash.), Hammad Hassan (Seattle), Marisa Aida Cantu (Maple Valley, Wash.), Sranee Sri Bayapureddy (Seattle), Yohann Puri (Seattle)...