ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,502, issued on March 4, was assigned to VERENT LLC (Rock Springs, Wyo.).

"Method of facilitating contact between mutually interested people" was invented by Gregory Taylor (San Diego) and Douglas Morgen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable non-transitory physical storage medium having stored thereon machine-executable code for electronically facilitating contact between mutually interested entities, said machine-executable code to be executed by a microprocessor, said machine executable code which when executed by said microprocessor causes the microprocessor to perform operations including suggesting to ...