ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,500, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Klaviyo Inc. (Boston).

"Implicitly annotating textual data in conversational messaging" was invented by David Yi Xiao (Boston), Smit Anish Kiri (Cambridge, Mass.), Tianxing Liu (Waltham, Mass.), Casey Koppes (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Gabriel Gralla (Somerville, Mass.), Kaila Corrington (Cambridge, Mass.), Nithin Gangadharan (Boston), Prisca Sara Joseph (Canton, Mass.), Robert Roosevelt Mercer III (Raleigh, N.C.), Vera Guttenberger (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andrew Cole Young (Young, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automated testing and selection of multip...