ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,991, issued on March 31.

"Facilities management techniques having centralized control over communications and actions from diverse applications" was invented by David M. Torchiano (Astoria, N.Y.) and Joshua M. Arak (Park Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new form of facilities management system is provided, including a control system that creates, assigns and manages unique, dedicated communications channels for users of the system based on subject matter mined from initial communications, masks them, and mediates further communications through the masked communications channel(s). In some embodiments AI modules are inclu...