ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,976, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEUSTAR INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for providing context data associated with a communications session to the called device" was invented by Guido Jonjie S. Sena Jr. (Reston, Va.), Manjul Maharishi (Reston, Va.) and Gaurav Sharma (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing called devices with sets of context data associated with communication sessions are disclosed. In one implementation, a method for generating context data associated with a communications session may include receiving, from a calling device at a first subsystem, a request to estab...