US Patent Issued to ASD Inc. a Pennsylvania on Feb. 17 for "System and method for ensuring activation of call forwarding to answering service or the like" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,636, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ASD Inc. a Pennsylvania Corp. (Media, Pa.).

"System and method for ensuring activation of call forwarding to answering service or the like" was invented by Martin Czachor Jr. (Newtown Square, Pa.), Jessica Czachor (Newtown Square, Pa.), Kevin Czachor (West Chester, Pa.) and Norman Franke (Garnet Valley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A called party is expected to activate call forwarding to an answering service when going off duty. In an attempt to ensure that call forwarding is activated, the answering service creates a check record for the called party in a database, including a call time...