ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,830, issued on June 24, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Authenticated calling voicemail integration" was invented by Kate Megan Carney Landow (Denver), Nereus Lobo (Englewood, Colo.), Arielle Smith (Denver), Allyson Lotz (Denver) and Bin Xu (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for providing authenticated caller information for voicemail are presented herein. A terminating telephony service provider system can receive a request to connect a telephone call, the request comprising a session initiation protocol (SIP) identity header. The terminating telephony service provider syste...