ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,498, issued on March 24, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Ireland).

"Method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device" was invented by Gerhard Dietrich Klassen (Waterloo, Canada) and Robert John Edwards (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device is provided. It is detected that the data comprises an attachment. An address of a copy of the attachment is determined, the attachment present on a storage devic...