ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,386, issued on June 24, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for generating an electronic communication" was invented by Jeff Ayars (Geneva, Ill.), Ruslan Gilfanov (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeff Holden (Chicago), John M. Nickels (Chicago), Pete Prokopowicz (Oak Park, Ill.), Dan Roarty (Chicago) and David Thacker (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve generation of electronic communications. The method may provide a plurality of content slots each configured to receive content, the content comprising at least one o...