ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,877, issued on April 15, was assigned to DEZZIRE LLC.

"Communication system and method" was invented by Michael A. DiRezze (Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.) and Arnaldo I. DiRezze (Shelby Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a system, including: a first mobile device; and a second mobile device, wherein the first mobile device is configured to send a task message to the second mobile device and, in response, the second mobile device is configured to repeatedly, and at predefined intervals, play the task message audibly until an input clearing the task message is received...