US Patent Issued to Block on May 26 for "Determining an optimal communication channel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,753, issued on May 26, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Determining an optimal communication channel" was invented by Joachim Bekmann (San Francisco) and Nicholas Halpern (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include receiving, at a system, user data related to a user of a plurality of users, the user data including user characteristics associated with the user. The system assigns the user to a group of users based at least in part on the user sharing at least one user characteristic with users in the group of users. The system uses a machine learning model for determining, at least in part, an optimal...