ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,855, issued on May 6, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for applying data retention policies in a computing platform" was invented by Adam Ballai (San Francisco) and Timothy S. Milliron (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a multitenant computing platform. Original data is generated through operation of a computing platform system on behalf of an account of the computing platform system, and the original data is moderated according to a data retention policy set for the account. The moderated data is stored at the computing platform system. The computing platform system m...