ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,639, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Enhanced search and retrieval system with display connectors" was invented by Alexandrina Hramova (Moscow) and Aleksey Sidorov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a request to access an offline message datastore, the request originating from a requesting device in communication with the message investigator system. The system may, responsive to the request, generate a second interface of the connector system, the second interface comprising a one or more user interface inputs specific to the offline message datastore. The sy...