ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,942, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Session control system" was invented by Zack W. Blackmon (Richmond, Va.), Thomas Tran (Richmond, Va.), Terry Bache (Richmond, Va.), Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.), Niall Gallagher (Richmond, Va.), Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain), Guillaume Michel (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Glen Allen, Va.) and Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session control system for a device includes at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The memory i...