ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,765, issued on May 13, was assigned to Eolas Technologies Inc. (Tyler, Texas).

"Automated communications response system" was invented by Steven Carl Landers (Mount Claremont, Australia) and Michael D. Doyle (Wheaton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system provides for end-user control over the automatic recognition of communication situations by detection of unique telecommunication event characteristics and the consequential responses to those situations by invocation of related programmatic responses. The system allows an end user to specify various patterns of telecommunication event characteristics that ...