ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,077, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to InterMetro Communications Inc. (Simi Valley, Calif.).

"System and method for dynamic multifactor routing" was invented by Christopher Fogel (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Charles Rice (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selecting communication routes based on multiple criteria is disclosed. The system can dynamically update route ranking criteria without loading new data tables. Further, the system can be implemented in the context of a route ranking system that provides a list of routes for processing or completing a call. The list of routes can be generated in a ranked o...