ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,014, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Notion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Reusable mail block generation and suggestion" was invented by Elias McKay MacKinnon (San Francisco), Peter Lu (San Francisco) and Arpeet Kale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating reusable mail blocks based on recurring patterns of text in groups of stored emails and suggesting relevant mail blocks to a user during email composition. Emails are stored in a database and similarity scores between emails are calculated based on semantic similarities. Emails with a similarity score sati...