ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,859, issued on May 6, was assigned to GETSCRIBER INC. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for subscription management services" was invented by Brian Goldsmith (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and James Estrich Kaplan (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for subscription management services including receiving, by a computing device, a message from a message originator user equipment through a messaging service; matching user identification data associated with the received message with an entry in a database; parsing the received message if a match is found; determining whether the ...