ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 1 -- Level 3 Communications, Broomfield, Colorado, has been assigned a patent (8,995,633) developed by Michelle Gore, Arvada, Colorado, for a "system and method for creating a routing matrix for routing local calls."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2009 (12/544,179). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sec.../8,995,633

Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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