ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,042, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for generating indications of real-time communication sessions" was invented by Christopher Landry (Woodstock, Canada), Angela Chen (Arcadia, Calif.), Nancy Cao (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Ni (Seattle), Jacob Adolphe (Washington) and Joaquin Fuenzalida Nunez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generating indications of real-time communication sessions. An ongoing communication session is monitored to identify a most recent subset of communications, the most recent subset of communications being defined by a sl...