US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 2 for "Universal actionable notifications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,640, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Universal actionable notifications" was invented by Lawrence Fubini Waldman (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrew Vincent Spiziri (Seattle), Paresh Lukka (Redmond, Wash.) and Anton Leo Dukeman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification service may act as an intermediary between message channels and/or other sources of actionable notifications and/or action items contained in messages, aggregating actionable notifications for a given recipient across multiple message channels and/or across multiple tools or services, sending notificati...