ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,187, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Precise Media LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Method and system for redirecting unwanted telephone calls" was invented by Daniel Meeler (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of redirecting phone calls includes storing a plurality of unwanted phone numbers in a database, receiving, at a user device, a phone call signal having a phone number associated therewith, forwarding the phone call to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system, determining whether the phone number is in the database, and when the number is stored in the database, forwarding the phone call to a call ...