ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,767, issued on May 13, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, devices and arrangements for unified messaging" was invented by Ramprakash Narayanaswamy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a communications platform provides data communications services over a communication network and involving different communications systems respectively associated with respectively different formats to a plurality of communication user-operable devices each of which has a user interface for communicating information. The data communications services are used with a browser and facilitate: establi...