US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on March 31 for "Concurrent channels of communication" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,111, issued on March 31, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Concurrent channels of communication" was invented by Maland Mortensen (San Antonio), Teddy J. Vontour (Helotes, Texas), Emily Gray (San Antonio), Andrew Anaruk (San Antonio) and Christopher T. Wilkinson (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and machine-readable media for concurrent communication. One method includes displaying an interactive application on a first device of a user during a break in an entertainment segment displayed on a second device, sending a request for i...