ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,144, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).
"Message routing optimization system" was invented by Jamie O'Shaughnessy (Surrey, Great Britain), Riivo Kikas (Tartu, Estonia) and Kaarel Kitsemets (Uuesalu, Estonia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for message routing optimization. The message routing optimization system receives requests to transmit messages to recipient devices. The message routing optimization system determines whether to allocate the messages to an optimal routing provider or a secondary routing provider. The message rout...