ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,026, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Maintaining time relevancy of static content" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India), Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tumkur District, India) and Gyanveer Singh (Bihar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Static content, such as text, an audio clip, an image, or a video clip, may be forwarded to users in a communication, e.g., a message, e-mail, social media post, social chat message, or made available in a blog post, or webpage. It is determined whether time-sensitive information included in that content will be updated automaticall...