US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Leveraging user's virtual interactions to influence preferred message communication timing" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,513, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Leveraging user's virtual interactions to influence preferred message communication timing" was invented by Shilpa Shetty (Sydney), Jignesh Karia (Thane, India), Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama (Bangalore, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India) and Neha Shah (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include linking a user's virtual interaction data with a service or product to a virtual token; determining that the virtual token is associated with a user that provided consent to link a virtual avat...