ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,751, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GLOBAL RELAY COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"System and method for processing messages from an external communication platform" was invented by Warren Roy (London), Xavier Jover Segura (London), Alfred Scholldorf (New York) and Philip Persad (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing third-party electronic messages for an organization having a regulatory requirement to retain business-related electronic messages is disclosed. For a user account for a user associated with the organization, a message space accessible through electronic devices i...