ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,756, issued on June 2, was assigned to AT&T MOBILITY II LLC (Atlanta).

"Intelligent personalized alert/notification as a service" was invented by Effendi Jubilee (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Ming-Ju Ho (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system receives an alert for delivery to user equipment devices (UEs) communicating on a network. The system determines a type of the alert and a coverage area for the alert; identifies UEs in the coverage area for delivery of the alert; and determines, for each of the UEs, a priority level for the alert,...