ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,973, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Xtone Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Voice application network platform" was invented by Vishal Dhawan (Centreville, Va.) and Timothy M Price (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed voice applications system includes a voice application rendering agent and at least one voice applications agent that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice applications rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual users based on user characteristics, information about the environment in whi...