ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,598, issued on May 27, was assigned to Seven Networks LLC (Marshall, Texas).

"Messaging centre for forwarding e-mail" was invented by Ari Backholm (Los Altos, Calif.), Seppo Salorinne (Helsinki), Antti Saarilahti (Helsinki), Marko Ketonen (Helsinki), Lauri Vuornos (Helsinki) and Petri Salmi (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forwarding an e-mail message from an e-mail server to a mobile terminal is provided. An e-mail address of the mobile terminal is associated with an identifier and encryption information, receiving the e-mail message associated with the e-mail address and sent by the e-mail server. The met...