ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,041, issued on June 30, was assigned to Verint Americas Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Realtime contextual event notification system" was invented by Chris Schnurr (Londonderry, Great Britain), Brendan Killen (Londonderry, Great Britain), Marc Calahan (Milton, Ga.) and Duane Wright (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A realtime contextual event notification system that ingests events as streams from any authorized entity applies rules to the event streams, determines a context of an end-user who is a recipient of a targeted notification, and provides notifications to the end-user in accordance with the context. The eve...