ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,072, issued on July 14, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Method and system for routing of inbound toll-free and tolled communications" was invented by David A. Tschirhart (Dale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products for consolidating toll-free and/or tolled features of two or more telecommunications networks. The networks may be consolidated via an Enhanced Feature Server (EFS) deployed in a telecommunications network. The EFS may be configured to receive a toll-free and/or tolled communication and route the communication based o...