US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 21 for "In-messaging calculation of formula results" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,218, issued on April 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"In-messaging calculation of formula results" was invented by Michael L. Kim (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for determining that a textual representation of input received from a user includes a formula and calculating a result of the formula are described herein. The textual representation is at least part of a message for a message recipient. After calculating the result, the message is provided to the message recipient, with the message including the formula and the result. Either or both of the message sender or mess...