US Patent Issued to PHISHFLAGGER on May 20 for "System and a method of using sequential numbering to detect a fraudulent telephone call within a telephone system" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,317, issued on May 20, was assigned to PHISHFLAGGER INC. (Toronto).

"System and a method of using sequential numbering to detect a fraudulent telephone call within a telephone system" was invented by William Pearce (Cornwall, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of verifying the authenticity of telephone calls from a caller to a recipient, the telephone calls having a caller's telephone number and recipient's telephone number, respectively, and an accessible field within the caller ID system for receiving content. The method includes the steps of first identifying the recipient for a call to be made by t...