US Patent Issued to Twilio on Oct. 7 for "Architecture for timers as a service" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,962, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Architecture for timers as a service" was invented by Christopher Lintz (Franktown, Colo.) and Krishna Tushar Dharaiya (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for implementing timers as a service. A request to create a timer is received. The request corresponds to a wait state condition associated with an event in a data stream. The request specifies an endpoint for a payload associated with an expiration of the timer. The timer is created based on the wait state condition. The creating of the timer includes publishing informat...