ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,863, issued on March 18, was assigned to Deborah A. Lambert (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) and Whitehead Investments LLC (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

"Method and system for organizing and interacting with messages on devices" was invented by Erik N. Lukas (Beverly Shores, Ind.) and Gregory O. Peet (Dewey, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes systems and methods for managing electronic messages on a display device. A vertical list of graphical elements each corresponding to an electronic message can be displayed on the display device and user input can be detected. A graphical element can be associated with an atta...