ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,013, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Outreach Corp. (Seattle).

"Automatically managing email communications using indirect reply identity resolution" was invented by Gordon L. Hempton (Seattle), Wesley R. Hather (Seattle), Andrew S. Kinzer (Seattle) and Manuel A Medina (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are enclosed herein for automatically managing email communication between a group of users and a group of target prospects. A sequence of outbound emails is automatically sent on behalf of a user to a prospect. Based upon the prospect's inbound replies (or lack thereof) the system will perform preconfigure...