ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,949, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FIRST ORION CORP. (North Little Rock, Ark.).

"Out-of-band call authentication using pseudo call routing" was invented by Robert Francis Piscopo Jr. (Saint Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example provides performing a pseudo-call operation to obtain call information and sharing the call information prior to placing the actual call, the example may include receiving a call invite message from an out of band network, transmitting a call alert message to a terminating network indicating a time period, a calling number and a called number, receiving a call at the terminating netwo...