ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,557, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Axon Enterprise Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for filtering messages" was invented by Mark A. Hanchett (Mesa, Ariz.), Reinhard J. Gagnon (Rimrock, Ariz.) and Rick Wong (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording system may use the information stored in a list to determine whether to receive and/or respond to messages transmitted by notice systems. The source of the information for the list includes a server and/or the recording system itself. A server that provides the list may use data provided by an agency to determine a relationship between a people, recording device...