ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,082, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zeta Global Corp. (New York).

"Smart copy optimization in customer acquisition and customer management platforms" was invented by Pavan Korada (San Rafael, Calif.), Sunpreet Singh Khanuja (San Jose, Calif.) and Ao Li (Cliffside, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, special-purpose machines are provided that facilitate smart copy optimization in a network service or publication system, including software-configured computerized variants of such special-purpose machines and improvements to such variants, and to the technologies by which such special-purpose machines become improv...