ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,174, issued on March 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Routing VOIP traffic" was invented by Chia-Chang Li (Holmdel, N.J.), Eric Wong (Edison, N.J.), Vengatarajulu Rajasekar (Mount Laurel, N.J.) and Satish Sampangiramiah (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for routing voice over internet protocol (VOIP) are described. A service provider may provide a VOIP infrastructure for routing VOIP calls. One or more other service providers may join the VOIP infrastructure. A computing device may identify the service provider servicing the VOIP calls and may further proces...