US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 21 for "Automatic caller identification translation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,362, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Automatic caller identification translation" was invented by Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Thomas Haustein (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an interrogator for obtaining information associated with a caller identification, such as a telephone number, transmitted within an incoming telephone call including: a receiving device configured to receive the incoming telephone call and to extract the caller identification from the incoming telephone call; an interrogating device configu...