ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,048, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual configuration and programmatic deployment of no-code chat apps" was invented by Michael Jeffrey Procopio (Boulder, Colo.), Nicholas Eric Westbury (Seattle), Sarmad Hashmi (San Jose, Calif.), Rachel Goodman Moore (Kirkland, Wash.) and Francis Herrera Cortez (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deploying no-code chat applications includes receiving, from a user, a chat application deployment request requesting deployment of a chat application. The chat application is derived from a no-code application that was generated using a n...