ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,404, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for surfacing unconsumed communications" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of methods and systems for surfacing unconsumed communications, an example device includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to cause the device to detect that an ongoing communication pertaining to a first topic includes one or more first communications in a first communication channel being accessed by a user of...