US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "Visually representing various attributes of an electronic message for quick overview" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,868, issued on Feb. 24.

"Visually representing various attributes of an electronic message for quick overview" was invented by Mark Lambert (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system obtains emails sent to a user, an email among the emails, and a sender of the email and determines whether the sender provided an image representing the sender. Upon determining that the sender did not provide the image, the system obtains the image representing the sender. The system identifies a subset of emails, where each email in the subset of emails is from the sender. The system presents in an email interface the subset of ema...