ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,226, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZL Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"In-place e-mail procurement and archive system" was invented by Kon Leong (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein involve receiving journal copies of the e-mails directed to the enterprise architecture; retrieving message identifiers (IDs) from the journal copies of the e-mails for managing the journal copy in a full text index; and in response to a request to retrieve one or more of the in-place e-mails from the enterprise architecture associated with a message ID: providing the message ID to the API associated wit...