ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,566, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Message application improvement for recalling one to many private conversations" was invented by Adam Leon (San Francisco), Monique Yin (San Carlos, Calif.), David Golland (Oakland, Calif.) and Felix Giguere Villegas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving an interactive user interface of a messaging application by dynamically identifying a configurable number of top-ranked targets for a new message from a plurality of possible targets for the new message are disclosed. An interaction with the messaging applicati...