ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,603, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Configuring a monitor mode for suspicious content in emails" was invented by Narendrakumar Jagadishkumar Shah (Ahmedabad, India), Vivek Rudraduttbhai Yagnik (British Columbia, Canada), Sumit Devshibhai Kakadiya (Ahmedabad, India), John Mears (Carmarthen, Great Britain) and Tom Foucha (Southhaven, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes implementing, at a first computing system, a configuration of a routing journal rule and a connector to configure the first computing system to automatically send copies of inbound emails...