ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,412, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEUSTAR INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for providing calling party information" was invented by Marybeth C. Degeorgis (Seaside Park, N.J.), Kenneth McWilliams (San Diego), Aleksandr Fedoseyev (McLean, Va.) and Padmavati Chitrapu (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for providing calling party information are disclosed. In one implementation, a server for providing calling party information includes one or more processors configured to receive a query for calling party information from a carrier. The query includes an identifier associated with the calling p...