ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,003, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Movius Corp..

"System and method for provision of an advanced network function to a device" was invented by George Backhaus (Suwanee, Ga.), Philip Lowman (Ellijay, Ga.), Jingnesh Gandhi (Duluth, Ga.), Julio Gonzalez (Tucker, Ga.), John Green (Roswell, Ga.), Paul Rubenstein (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Mike Speanburg (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced capabilities within a telephone network are made accessible to a telecommunications device. The telecommunications device is used to dial a sequence. A network server receives and identifies the sequence invokes an advanced netwo...