ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,749, issued on July 29, was assigned to Indeed Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Managing telecommunication responsiveness" was invented by Devansh T. Shah (Vadodara, India) and Rahul Dhaundiyal (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunication responsiveness system and method receives a job posting regarding an available job from a job provider including a telecommunication address of a job provider representative, associates and substitutes a virtual telecommunication address for the telecommunication address in the job available posting. The system and method then route any subsequent telecommunications from a job seeker t...