ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,342, issued on March 11.

"Multi-call management system and method" was invented by Erik Gall (Fort Perry, Okla.), Ryan Herrman (Overland Park, Kan.), Kaden Gall (Perry, Okla.) and Michelle Herrman (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A call management system includes a control module to be operated via any combination of software and hardware; the control module to perform the steps of determine when a call is taking place between one or more users and providing one or more options to the one or more users for the management of the call to allow the users to communicate with multiple callers simultaneously."

The pate...