ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,236, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for communicating through multiple endpoints" was invented by Patrick Malatack (San Francisco), Gowri Rao (San Francisco), Kenneth Hoxworth (San Francisco), Elaine Tsai (San Francisco), Saurabh Daftary (Concord, Calif.), Triet Kha (San Francisco) and Julie Laver (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a communication system that includes configuring a set of communication endpoints of an entity; distributing communication requests of an entity across the set of communication endpoints, comprising: receiving at least o...