US Patent Issued to Twilio on March 25 for "Generation of models for classifying user groups" (Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,422, issued on March 25, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generation of models for classifying user groups" was invented by Nicole Woytarowicz (Allen, Texas), Samuel Vaughn Tucker (Minneapolis), Inga Mgherbrishvili (Kirkland, Wash.), Rowan Michael Wing (Longmont, Colo.) and Hanhan Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for estimating if a user belongs to an audience category. One method includes an operation for accessing events generated at a website. Each event comprises a data structure describing an operation performed by a user, from a group of users, when...