ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,009, issued on May 12, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"In-transit email review and data collection" was invented by Vinith Raj (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Sriharsha Angara (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for in-transit email review and data collection. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a plurality of original emails at an alias email address. The alias email address may be associated with a user. Once a plurality of original emails are received at the alias email address, the method may include analyzing the plurality of original emails to identify relevant data c...