ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,381, issued on April 15, was assigned to Gula Consulting LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Computer-based communication generation using phrases selected based on behaviors of communication recipients" was invented by Steven Dennis Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Naomi Felina Moneypenny (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating adaptive explanations for associated recommendations is disclosed. The adaptive explanations comprise a syntactical structure and associated phrases that are selected in accordance with usage behaviors and/or inferences associated with usage behaviors. The phrases included in an adaptive explanat...