ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,978, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Superhuman Platform Inc..

"Deriving text elements from threaded electronic messages" was invented by Dru Knox (Oakland, Calif.), Dimitris Alikaniotis (New York), Maxim Gubin (Danville, Calif.), Timo Mertens (San Francisco), Spencer Herrick (San Francisco) and Roman Khlystik (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process is programmed to programmatically receive, from a client device, digital electronic copies of two or more electronic messages that are associated with one another as a message group and directed to a receiving account, form an in-memory object model...