ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,016, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Verint Americas Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Real-time application event detection for context-rich notifications and coaching" was invented by Chris Schnurr (Londonderry, Great Britain), Curtis Cunningham (Londonderry, Great Britain), Chris O'Donnell (Greater Manchester, Great Britain) and Senan Burgess (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A realtime contextual event notification system that ingests events as streams from any authorized entity applies rules to the event streams, determines a context of an end-user who is a recipient of a targeted notification, and provides notifications to the end...