ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,011, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Computer-implemented multi-user messaging application" was invented by Ovidiu Dan (Redmond, Wash.), Ondrej Starosta (Zdimerice, Czech Republic), Guilherme Iscaro De Godoy (Prague), Michal Hanzlik (Prague), Prateek Tiwari (Sammamish, Wash.) and Muhammad Saad Sadiq (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform several acts. The acts include receiving multiple messages from multiple users in a messaging ap...