ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,986, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for processing electronic communications" was invented by NarendraKumar Shah (Ahmedabad, India), Deepak Kharpuriya (Ahmedabad, India) and John Mears (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing an electronic communication. The method may include receiving an electronic message including a first location indicator of a network resource, wherein the first location indicator has a first length and includes an identifier of a recipient of the electronic message, wherein the identifier indicates an act...