ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,522, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telgorithm Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Throttling text messaging on-the-fly based on customer specific throughput allotment" was invented by Aaron Alter (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives a request from a customer system to send a text message to a recipient system, the request including a phone number of the recipient system. The online system sends a query to a registry system for a throughput allotment applicable to the text message. The online system sends a query to determine the MNO that is associated with the phone number of the recipient system and que...