ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,218, issued on June 17, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).

"Machine-learning notification service" was invented by Imran Akbar (Allen, Texas), Gaurav Chakravorty (Fremont, Calif.), Ravi Mandliya (Issaquah, Wash.) and Risa Pesavento (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a smart notification service that is machine-learning driven and integrates with smart channels for determining how the user is receiving notifications and smart notification generators for determining what notifications should be sent and to whom, based on what notifications have been sent previously to the users ...