ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,370, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARAXXE (Lyons, France) and VIAVI SOLUTIONS FRANCE SAS (Saint-Etienne, France).

"Method and system for controlling scam phone calls" was invented by Margot Bouteille (Lyons, France), Fanny Daudies (Lyons, France), Xavier Lesage (Neuilly sur Seine, France), Lilian Perron (Lyons, France) and Fabrice Jean Louis Chesneau (Haute Goulaine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling scams in which a phone call requests a return call to a target number, comprising the following steps: collecting signalling data of phone calls made via a telephone network (2);...