ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,060, issued on July 15, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods for asynchronous communication" was invented by Lauren B. Acquista (New York), Donald R. Bloyer III (Anthem, Ariz.), Yevgeny Gladun (Chandler, Ariz.), Anish Jacob (Phoenix), Joseph S. Kueser (Chandler, Ariz.), Mitchel J. Sandlin (Chandler, Ariz.), Mahesh Subramanian (Phoenix) and Shelly Yanushpolsky (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the present disclosure, a method may initiate communications over an synchronous communication channel between first and second computing devices and a s...