ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,293, issued on June 23, was assigned to WORKIVA INC. (Ames, Iowa).
"System and method for comment permissions" was invented by Mallory Kay Earll (Chicago), Piper Caroline Galyean (Wakefield, Mass.), Spencer Patrick Bradley (Ames, Iowa) and David Edward Marne (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for restricting comment access for a document is described. A request for comment permissions to be applied to a comment within the document is received. The comment permissions exclude a target user from an access type for the comment. The comment permissions are applied to the comment, where the comment permissions are distinct f...