ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,864, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for personalizing messages based on a recipient relationship" was invented by Kuppappa Dandappa Harijan (Bangalore, India) and Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives a message from a user, along with a recipient list and generated personalized messages for recipients of the recipient list. The system determines the format of the message, and whether to, and how to, modify the message based on information about the recipient. For example, a recipient category may be used to determine h...