ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,843, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEUSTAR INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automatically authenticating communications with a calling 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 automatically authenticating an incoming call are disclosed. In one implementation a method for automatically authenticating an incoming call includes receiving a call from a calling device. The call includes an identifier associated with the calling device. The method further includes receiving, separately f...