US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Fork and return point selection for sidebar communication threads" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,593, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fork and return point selection for sidebar communication threads" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Wei-Chen Chen (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for sidebar communication threads forked from, or related to, a principal thread. Messages in the sidebar communication thread may include a history of the principal thread, including one or more messages from the principal thread, and may include a proposed princ...