ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,083, issued on Feb. 25.

"Method of detecting incomplete electronic record sets using sequential numbering" was invented by William Michael Pearce (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is disclosed a method of verifying the authenticity of text messages sent from a sender to a recipient. The text messages each having a sender's address and a user-accessible field for receiving content. The content of the user-accessible field is visible to the recipient upon opening the text message in the second text message application. The method includes the steps of identifying the receiver for a message to be sent by the sender, generat...