ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,599, issued on April 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ranking and marking messages in a group-based communication system using machine learning techniques" was invented by Aaron Maurer (Washington D.C., D.C.), Fiona Condon (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kyle Jablon (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Shaurya Kethireddy (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, devices, and computer program products are described. In a group-based communication system, a user may save posts for later (e.g., to reply to a message at a later time, to complete a task associated with a message at a later time). The sys...