ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,436, issued on July 29, was assigned to Callfire Inc. (San Francisco).
"Cross-network text communication management system" was invented by Shannon Elizabeth Donohue (Playa del Rey, Calif.), Vijesh Rajnikant Mehta (Culver City, Calif.), Norman William Happ (Los Altos, Calif.) and Aaron Horvath (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text communication management system is provided that receives, analyzes, and enforces recipient actions regarding phone-based text communications. The text communication management system can obtain recipient action data regarding a recipient's action with respect to a particular text comm...