US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Collaborative browsing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,290, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Collaborative browsing" was invented by Avi Ashish Vaid (Seattle), Joseph Jiwoong Oak (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mohamed Mansour (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology described herein provide a collaborative browsing experience in which real-time browsing activity and saved browsing activity of session collaborators in a collaborative browsing session are shared with the collaborators. A collaborative session may be initiated, which may create a tab group associated with the session and linked to a collaborat...