ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,606, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time media streams" was invented by Krishnaprasad Gutta (San Francisco) and Tyler Wells (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing real-time media streams. A cloud-based communication platform receives an incoming communication request to establish a communication session and executes a set of communication instructions associated with the incoming communication request. The set communication instructions includes a command to execute a real-time media stream in rela...