ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,283, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Email text enhancement using machine learning" was invented by Erga Herzog (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Noam Koenigstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itzik Malkiel (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Yakir Yehuda (Tirat Carmel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An original email text is evaluated against a set of properties to identify shortcomings in the natural language, format, and structure used in the original email text. The properties represent characteristics needed to enhance the original mail text to a professionally-written style. A first machine lea...