ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,762, issued on May 13, was assigned to YouMail Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for facilitating setup and joining of conference calls" was invented by Alexander E. Quilici (Malibu, Calif.) and Michael J. Rudolph (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a conference call, the system comprising a call answering server configured to receive a call from an attendee device that has been forwarded from a host device, identify a conference call associated with the host device for the attendee device to join, receive a request from the attendee device to join the conference call, and connect...