ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,671, issued on July 1, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fraudulent call detection" was invented by Harsha Ramamurthy Joshi (Bangalore, India), Purnima Tammireddy (Bangalore, India) and Pavan Kumar Podila (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example a mobile telephone, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a telecommunication transceiver; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: identify a call made via the telecommunication transceiver; analyze the call and assign the call a predicted local reputation according to the anal...