US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Jan. 28 for "Conveyance of stir/shaken attestation levels using carrier code" (Colorado, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,971, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Conveyance of stir/shaken attestation levels using carrier code" was invented by Richard D. Moore (Frederick, Colo.), Daniel W. Peele (Pensacola, Fla.) and Matthew C. Hess (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes providing an attestation level to a received communication. The attestation level may be used to communicate a level of security to a network or a called party that receives the communication. The attestation level associated with the communication may indicate to a destination network and/or recipient that...