US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Email management engine in an electronic mail system" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,853, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Email management engine in an electronic mail system" was invented by Mrinal Kumar Sharma (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing context-aware out-of-office (OOO) assistance using an email management engine. Context-aware OOO assistance supports email management operations that provide OOO functionality with artificial intelligence and context-awareness for email management during periods of unavailability. In operation, an email message is accessed. An email message category...