ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,815, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Initiating a business messaging session" was invented by Grant C. Ritchie (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mithilesh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Austin A. Marusco (San Francisco), Akshay Bapat (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John N. Meehan (Campbell, Calif.), Elmira Petrenco (San Jose, Calif.), Malay Mallick (San Jose, Calif.), Sampath Sree Kumar Kolluru (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam R. Podstawczynski (Lodz, Poland), Zhaoyuan Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Jae Woo Chang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for init...