ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,961, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for sharing a sip communication service identifier" was invented by Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, Texas), Andrew Michael Allen (Hallandale Beach, Fla.) and Adrian Buckley (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a user agent (UA) with service identification data. The method includes an application server (AS) transmitting Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) data. The SIP data comprises an identifier of the AS and a service identifier for at least one service supported by the AS. The method further includes t...