ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,415, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for determining call muting areas" was invented by Atul Rajpoot (Indore, India), Durgesh Rathore (Indore, India), Sudeep Kumar Jain (Indore, India) and Nilesh Bankar (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying call muting areas includes dividing a network cluster into a plurality of grids, determining a call muting percentage of at least one first grid of the plurality of grids, determining whether the call muting percentage of the at least one first grid is greater than a predetermined call muting percentage threshol...