ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,502, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Response prediction for electronic communications" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Eric Loucks (Tysons, Va.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), George Bergeron (Falls Church, Va.), Kyle Johnson (Washington) and Brian Lee (South Riding, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for performing sentiment analysis on electronic communications relating to one or more image-based communications methods, such as emoji. Message data may be received. The message data may correspond to a message ...