ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,528, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for chat message management and document generation on devices" was invented by Britta Meixner (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Carter (Mountain View, Calif.) and Matthew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein are directed to implementations that facilitate individuals to collect, store, and automatically extract procedural knowledge from their messaging interactions with collaborative groups. Example implementations involve chat interfaces to communicate and add the capability t...