US Patent Issued on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for content presentation in association with a telephone call" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,426, issued on March 25.

"Method and apparatus for content presentation in association with a telephone call" was invented by Wendell D. Brown (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). ...