ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,280, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Message notification delay" was invented by Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Mark Delaney (Raleigh, N.C.), Arnold Weksler (Raleigh, N.C.) and John C. Mese (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine a first context and to determine that a threshold number of messages of a message chain have been received within a thresh...