ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,789, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods involving use of context data in data-communications" was invented by Arunim Samat (Campbell, Calif.), Soumyadeb Mitra (Campbell, Calif.), Vijai Gandikota (Campbell, Calif.), Manu Mukerji (Campbell, Calif.) and Solomon Fung (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods concerning providing a data-communications virtual assistant are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a data-communications server. The data communications server is configured to process user-data-communication between a client station a...