US Patent Issued to Slack Technologies on May 20 for "Indicating user interactions associated with a document" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,063, issued on May 20, was assigned to Slack Technologies LLC (San Francisco).

"Indicating user interactions associated with a document" was invented by Manju Vijayakumar (San Francisco), Andrew Fong (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Michael Hahn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In association with a communication platform, one or more users can create, share, edit, and/or comment on a document. An indicator can be provided to one user that another user is presently interacting with the document. For example, the indicator can indicate information about a respective user, such as a permission level, virtual-space membership, and ...