ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,242, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"911 address update" was invented by Bridget McAndrew (Denver), Anne Kempen (Denver), Sudhir Dadi (Westminster, Colo.), Corey Curtis (Owasso, Okla.), Michael Robles (Arvada, Colo.) and Kevin Michelsen (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing 911 or enhanced 911 ("E911") address update. In various embodiments, in response to a trigger event, a computing system may determine whether E911 address data associated with a customer that is stored in an E911 database requires updating. If so, the computi...