ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,041, issued on March 18, was assigned to FIRST ORION CORP. (North Little Rock, Ark.).

"IP-enabled information delivery" was invented by Monica Rose Martino (Plano, Texas) and Taylor Cleghorn (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for providing Internet protocol enabled information delivery are provided. Information from a calling party is received at an Internet protocol enabled device. A lookup of information relating to the calling party is performed in a database via an Internet protocol connection. A message is received from the database comprising info...