ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,591, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM USA INC. (Frisco, Texas).

"Extending communication services to a consumption device using a proxy device" was invented by Gautam G. Reddy (Plano, Texas), Pallavur A. Sankaranaraynan (Frisco, Texas), Jayabharath R. Goluguri (McKinney, Texas) and Mathew Oommen (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for data communications comprising a handset having a processor, a wireless communications device, a speaker and a microphone and one or more software applications operating on the processor that are configured to interface with a voice over long-term evolution (Vo...