ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- United States Patent no. 11,977,616, issued on May 7, was assigned to FaceToFace Biometrics Inc. (St. Louis).

"Message sender security in messaging system" was invented by Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis) and Scott Stern (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a method of providing security and privacy for a message sender. The method can include a messaging application determining that a messaging interface of the computing device is active and is revealing or about to reveal the electronic message. The messaging application can identify a recipient account of a messaging server system that is associated with the electronic message according to ...