ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,979, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Interactive telephone system navigation" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Sanjeev Kumar Poluru Venkata (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of interactive telephone system navigation, a media device maintains a record of menu inputs to navigate an interactive telephone menu based on a first call and associates a telephone number of the first call with the record. The media device detects the telephone number initiated for a second call and provides an automated navigation of the interactive telephone menu during t...