ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,438, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Notion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Representing an email inbox as a customizable database" was invented by Andrew Milich (San Francisco), Jason Ginsberg (San Francisco), Nishil Shah (San Francisco), Arpeet Kale (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Lu (San Francisco), Byeong Chan Lee (Long Island City, N.Y.), Sunny Li (San Francisco), Natalie Almosa (Toronto), Guangyu Zhang (San Francisco), Nicholas Giancarlo Gervasi (Kirkland, Canada), Simon Townsend-Last (New York), Huan Zhao (San Francisco), Farzad Khosrowshani (Greenwich, Conn.), Terry Thunder Tsai (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ryan Kuang (Pasadena, Calif.) and Eli McKay MacKinnon (San Francisco).

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