US Patent Issued to Black Hills IP Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Structured text for electronic communications" (Minnesota, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,661, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Black Hills IP Holdings LLC (Minneapolis).

"Structured text for electronic communications" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.), Thomas G. Marlow (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) and Christopher James Kinniburgh (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here are methods of creating a manifest record for an outgoing electronic communication and associated systems. The method can include identifying at least one document to be sent with the outgoing electronic communication, receiving a message comprising unstructured text to be inserted into the outgoing electronic communication, g...