ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,142, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WiMacTel Canada Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Systems, methods, and media for routing telephone calls" was invented by Andrew Hamill (Calgary, Canada) and James Matthew Mackenzie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms (which can include, systems, methods, and media) for routing calls are provided. The mechanisms including: receiving a first message containing first information corresponding to a first telephone call; performing a series of queries based on at least a portion of the first information to determine whether the first telephone call matches a route in a first database...