US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Routing preference based communication to a closed group hierarchy" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,805, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Routing preference based communication to a closed group hierarchy" was invented by Jignesh K Karia (Thane, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Shilpa Shetty (Bangalore, India), Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama (Bangalore, India), Neha Shah (Kolkata, India) and Vishal Awal (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for message directing are provided. A first computer receives a registration of members organized into a first closed group hierarchy. The first computer rece...