ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,846, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Server apparatus, telephone connection method and telephone connection program" was invented by Naomi Kakinaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyohide Sutou (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaru Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hikaru Udagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a server apparatus, comprising a notification part that, when receiving an incoming call to a representative telephone number, multicastingly notifies a plurality of staff terminals previously registered in association with the representative telephone number of an occurrence of...