ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,287, issued on June 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Replacing email addresses with project-specific email addresses" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may determine, based on a communication between at least a first internal user that is internal to an organization and an external user that is external to the organization, that the communication is associated with a project record. The system may replace, before transmitting the communication, an email address of the first internal user with a project-specific email address that is linked t...