I believe you are conflating patents with copyrights.

The CEO/founder was the operator.

I still don’t think this is anything to celebrate though.

Be sure you keep using it. I only used mine for voicemail, and they finally decided they wanted the number back. I started to send a text every few weeks, but doesn’t seem to have been enough for voice to just receive them.

To be fair, I did have the opportunity to claim the number again.

I find the Microsoft Chrome extra funny due to it being chromium based.