US Patent Issued to NetNumber on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for providing telecommunication routing data" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,148, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NetNumber Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for providing telecommunication routing data" was invented by Chuck Santos (Nashua, N.H.) and Robbin W. Wells (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to provide routing data associated with a destination phone number to a service provider. The service provider sends a first query to a first computing node of a data provider for routing data associated with a phone number. The first computing node provides the routing data if it is available from the data provider. Otherwise, the first computing ...