ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,479, issued on June 2, was assigned to Slack Technologies LLC (San Francisco).

"Dynamically generated context pane within a group-based communication interface" was invented by Matthew Hodgins (Toronto), Sarah Raines (Philadelphia), Christine Lee (Oakland, Calif.) and Shanan Delp (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples of the present disclosure can be directed to programmatically generating and rendering for display a context pane within a group-based communication interface. In some examples, the context pane comprises context pane content representative of channel membership associated with a communication cha...