ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,903, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods involving call routing via disparate types of communication paths" was invented by Jared Smith-Mickelson (Campbell, Calif.) and Garth Judge (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain examples, a service provider provides communications services with endpoint devices. The data-communications services are established via redundant media channels from among disparate last-segment channel types (Wi-Fi, cellular network, etc.) accessible to one endpoint device through an edge server. An incoming call involving one endpoint device...