ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,482, issued on April 8, was assigned to FIRST ORION CORP. (North Little Rock, Ark.).
"Call screening service for detecting fraudulent inbound/outbound communications with subscriber devices" was invented by Robert Francis Piscopo Jr. (Saint Petersburg, Fla.) and Jefferson D. Stalnaker (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of operation may include one or more of identifying an outbound call placed by a mobile device subscribed to a protected carrier network, determining the outbound call is destined for a destination telephone number that was stored in a call history of the mobile device, determining the de...