ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,761, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bandwidth Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for message routing using attributes associated with the source" was invented by David Ress (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for routing messages to a destination are provided. The method includes determining a destination carrier for a destination telephone number (TN) of a destination associated with an end user. One or more source attributes are determined. A source attribute is associated with initiation of a message from a sender. Each of the one or more source attributes is categorized into one or more message classes ...