ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,811, issued on July 28, was assigned to CCH AUSTRALIA Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia) and WOLTERS KLUWER UNITED STATES INC. (Riverwoods, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for efficiently distributing alert messages" was invented by Jane E. Lovell (Sydney) and William S. Flannery (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a text describing a news event, a centralized information provider applies semantic rules to the text to determine to which client attributes the text corresponds. The centralized information provider retrieves, from an electronic database, (i) identifiers for multiple clients, (ii) a set of cli...