ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,063, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advance Local Media LLC (New York).

"SMS-based dual mode content subscription system" was invented by Lawrence Donoghue (Montclair, N.J.), Harris Novick (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), Kevin Wong (Robbinsville, N.J.) and David Cohn (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SMS-based dual mode content subscription system is disclosed. A first broadcast message associated with a subscription content source is received. A set of destination SMS addresses is determined, each destination SMS address associated with a different subscription to the subscription content source and corresponding to a differ...