ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,933, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Limited communications threads associated with construction based data objects" was invented by Nicolas Quintero (Austin, Texas), Stephen Hackley (Austin, Texas), Sadra Kassaei (Los Angeles), Megan Work (Summerland, Calif.), Chance Eakin (Austin, Texas) and Rein Henrichs (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform is configured to: (i) generate a data object; (ii) initialize a public conversation thread associated with the data object, the public conversation thread is accessible by each of a first group of users; (iii) c...