ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,555, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Conversation merging for electronic devices" was invented by Nicholas Joseph Circosta (Mountain View, Calif.), Patrick R. Burns (San Jose, Calif.), Bhaskar P. Sarma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Daniel B. Pollack (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Qu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin J. Lindeman (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Roberto Garcia (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for generation and distribution of a stable identifier associated with multiple aliases of a user account. The stable identifier may be provide...