ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,676, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Gateway device and method for managing voice calls" was invented by Ping Xie (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for managing voice calls and gateway device. A gateway device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure includes a voice call module for being connected with a landline device and/or a mobile voice device and configured to provide a calling out service to the landline device and/or the mobile voice device; a cellular session initiation protocol (SIP) client module for being conne...