ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,184, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cognitive determination of message suitability" was invented by Dong Jun Zong (Beijing), Da Li Liu (Beijing), Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing), Jing Xing (Beijing) and Jian Fang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cognitive determination of whether a message is suitable for sending over a data communications network can include extracting tokens from the message prior to transmitting the message. One or more intended recipients of the message can be determined from the tokens. A machine learning classification model cor...