ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,940, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Community.com Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Semantic clustering of messages" was invented by Alec Rubin (Venice, Calif.), Skylar Kerzner (Los Angeles), Nate Saletan (Los Angeles), Lars Perkins (Camden, Maine), Barry Steinglass (Bellevue, Wash.), Joshua Rosenheck (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Tomas Koci (Venice, Calif.) and Matthew Peltier (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In an example method, a first outbound text message is transmitted via a message broker of a messaging platform from a client to a plurality o...