ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,299, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MITEL NETWORKS Corp. (Kanata, Canada).

"System and method to create a sentiment-based index for searchable communications" was invented by Birendra Kumar Sahu (Karnataka, India) and Logendra Naidoo (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method searches organizational communications utilizing sentiment analysis of communication artifacts. A data-collection server first collects organizational data that includes communication artifacts. One or more searchable databases is in communication with the data-collection server and stores the communication artifacts. A search engine...