US Patent Issued to Salesforce on June 30 for "Automatic layout updates for document spaces in a group-based communication system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,311, issued on June 30, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic layout updates for document spaces in a group-based communication system" was invented by Greg Joseph Gauthier (Mountain View, Calif.), Aubrey Elizabeth Logan-Terry (Oakland, Calif.), James Barnes (San Francisco) and Michael Hahn (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, devices, and computer program products are described. A group-based communication system may support automatic layout updates for a document space. If a user adds an object into the document space, the system may generate a card representing the object...