ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,668, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Carbyne Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Cellular device caller id auto-discovery" was invented by Alexander Dizengof (Ashdod, Israel) and Ohad Rubinstein (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for discovering an MSISDN of a cellular device, comprising detecting an activation event of the cellular device with a SIM associated with an MSISDN not exposed to the cellular device, transmitting one or more discovery Short Message Service (SMS) messages to a discovery system configured to transmit back to the cellular device one or more response SMS messa...