ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,365, issued on May 13, was assigned to H.M. Electronics Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automatically assigning voice communication channels to employees in quick service restaurants" was invented by David O'Gwynn (Oceanside, Calif.) and Rick Evan Schwartz (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assigning voice communication channels used by a crew of employees using communication devices are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store information, wherein the information represents associations of individual voice communication channels with one or more communicat...