ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,039, issued on March 24, was assigned to Workstorm.com LLC (Chicago).

"Chat and email messaging integration" was invented by Jeffery Bay (Austin, Texas), Anatoliy Yudovich (Riverwoods, Ill.), Nicholas Stech (Chicago), Adrian Miller (Oroville, Calif.) and Raj Fernando (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for delivering and receiving messages. An embodiment operates by allowing users to subscribe to various chat panels of a messaging system. Users will be able to utilize the chat panels to send and receive messages. In a corporate context, an administrato...