ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,974, issued on July 14, was assigned to Notion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Varying internal and external hierarchies with webpage access permission management" was invented by Natasha Mayur Shah (San Francisco), Christopher Papazian (San Francisco), Matthew Piccolella (San Francisco), Ein Jung (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Omar Skalli (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can generate a website where pages are internally structured in a certain hierarchy, but where the pages can be published to an external hierarchy that need not match this internal hierarchy. These differing hierarchies allow for pages to be organized in the...