ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,381, issued on June 3, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimized message routing by communication services platform" was invented by Riivo Kikas (Tallinn, Estonia), Oleksandr Drozd (Tallinn, Estonia), Nariman Nazari (Malmo, Sweden) and Ilja Samoilov (Tallinn, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of selecting message routing providers based on message delivery data includes: receiving, by a processing device, message delivery data characterizing message delivery by a plurality of message routing providers to a specified destination network; estimating, based on the message delivery data, for each messa...