ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,781, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AVOXI INC. (Atlanta).

"Systems for call monitoring and associated methods using call arrival intervals" was invented by Randy Layman (Marietta, Ga.), Scott Strong (Ithaca, N.Y.), Keith Meyers (Senoia, Ga.), Alexander Hunt (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Mitchell Ramsey (Lake Wylie, S.C.), Matt Nichols (Roswell, Ga.) and Jeffery Wayne Cook (Eagle Mountain, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems may be utilized for call monitoring, including determining whether a callee may be experiencing an outage based on an expected call arrival interval. Methods of call monitoring are also dis...