ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,200, issued on June 23.

"Centralized resource management for disparate communication platforms" was invented by Jie Zhuang (Nanjing, China), Ke Xu (Nanjing, China), Zongpeng Qiao (Nanjing, China) and Xiao Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for grouping topics for users from different communication platforms are described herein. For example, a computing device may receive, from a user and via a communication platform, a request for sending content associated with the communication platform to the computing device. The computing device may determine, based on the received request, on...