ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,284, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Message modification based on device compatability" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Bangalore, India), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tiptur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for modifying messages transmitted between a first computing device and a second computing device based on the determination of a context of messages transmitted between the first and second computing devices. A first message, prepared to be transmitted to a second computing device, is prepared at a fi...