ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,269, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Faire Wholesale Inc. (San Francisco).

"Outgoing communication planner utilizing machine learning" was invented by Jing Xia (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods and systems for controlling sending of messages to retailers utilizing a B2B marketplace platform are described herein. Machine learning is used to train a communications timing model and a retailer interest model based on past messages sent to and received by each retailer of a plurality of retailers. The trained communications timing model is used to determine, for each retailer, a preferr...