ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,205, issued on June 17, was assigned to Airship Group Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Automated interactive communication trigger in message distribution" was invented by Anthony Saia (Chandler, Ariz.), Seth Miller (Mesa, Ariz.), Spencer Lund (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Ryan Lepinski (Portland, Ore.), Brandon O'Halloran (Omaha, Neb.), Armando Spataro (Chandler, Ariz.) and Daniel Seidel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message management server may receive selections, from a message publisher, to build a message series. The message series includes one or more messages and a live chat triggering condition. The message management server...