ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,077, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Virtual Connect Technologies Inc. (Greenville, S.C.).

"Computerized system for analysis and of electronic communication systems" was invented by Benjamin Hathaway (Greenville, S.C.) and David Setzer (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized system for analysis of electronic communication systems comprising: a set of testing computer readable instructions adapted for: receiving an email address representing a target message system to be tested, generating a test email wherein the test message requests a reply message, receiving a reply from the target message system, analyz...