ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,459, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Management of objects according to user context" was invented by Ben Silbermann (Palo Alto, Calif.), Evan Howell Sharp (San Francisco), Paul Sciarra (San Francisco) and Jon Jenkins (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems and methods that enable users to manage, search for, share and discover objects based on a context of the object from the user's perspective. The same object may have vastly different meanings (context) to different individuals based on how they experience the object. Rather than managing objects s...