ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,794, issued on April 8, was assigned to TigerConnect Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Method of sending messages to devices not configured to receive them" was invented by Brad Brooks (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sumeet Bhatia (Los Angeles) and Sean Whiteley (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a server for receiving a message from a sending device executing a messaging application and for sending a message notification alert to a recipient, the server having a processor and memory, the memory having computer executable code, comprising receiving the message from the sending device executing the messagin...