ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,721, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sure Market LLC (San Marino, Calif.).
"Distributed messaging communication system integrated with a cross-entity collaboration platform" was invented by Luojia Wang (San Marino, Calif.) and Douglas R. Heckmann (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication/collaboration system enables a first user at a first entity to define a collaboration object, and to invite a second entity to collaborate on the collaboration object in accordance with a hierarchy with corresponding permissions. A second user at a second entity is enabled to collaborate on the collaboration object. A communic...