ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,258, issued on May 5, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Communications apparatus using unified communications platform and channel-communications management circuit" was invented by Bryan R. Martin (Campbell, Calif.) and Jared Smith-Mickelson (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a communications system includes a unified communications platform and a channel-communications management circuit. The unified communications platform is to process different types of communications services respectively using different types of communications channels. The channel-communications management circuit may ...