ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,521, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bird Bidco B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Message-speed evaluation of event-based contract data" was invented by Dana Majid (Amsterdam) and Robert Vis (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, comprising using a message application processor, programmatically receiving a first request to determine a fee associated with sending a digital electronic message using any one of a plurality of different communication channels, the request comprising at least a product identifier and an organization identifier; in response to the request, the message application processor executing: ex...