ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,358, issued on July 21, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically providing a correct pronunciation for a user name based on user location" was invented by Vadiraj Katti (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ashish Seth (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication support system dynamically determines and presents to a conference participant the phonetic spelling for the proper pronunciation of a word associated with an individual engaging in a conversation with that conference participant prior to or during the establishment of the call, conference, or other communication sessio...