ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,867, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence for communication mode suggestion" was invented by Aditi Chakraborty (Plano, Texas), Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Rachana Vishwanathula (Hyderabad, India) and Sweta Agarwal (Birpara, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for generating a communication mode suggestion are provided. A first computer may receive a communication request from a first user to communicate with a second user. The first computer inputs the received communication ...