ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,987, issued on June 23, was assigned to IPC Systems Inc. (New York).

"Communication dynamics metadata tagging for transcription" was invented by Goutham Prasad Madhava (Monroe, Conn.), Elias Koutikas (Oxford, Conn.) and Matthew Samuel Murphy (Baldwin Place, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications system used for trading communications that interfaces with a transcription system to enable a service of transcribing trader communications. During an audio call, a stream of audio signals transmitted by a communications device via a user-selected communications line are received together with metadata from the communications dev...