ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,801, issued on July 22, was assigned to NetNumber Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Verified calling party information display confirmation system" was invented by Douglas Ranalli (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for display confirmation of verified calling party attributes at the time of call establishment. A call initiation request corresponding to a calling party is received and includes a set of verified calling party attributes. A subset of the verified calling party attributes is provided for display on a communication device associated with a call recipient identified by the call initiat...