US Patent Issued to Somos on June 3 for "Systems and methods for tagging fraudulent phone numbers" (Virginia, New Jersey, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,552, issued on June 3, was assigned to Somos Inc. (East Brunswick, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for tagging fraudulent phone numbers" was invented by Sriram Sharma (Herndon, Va.), Michael Kimmel (Ashburn, Va.), Suk Yee Wong (Belle Mead, N.J.), William Carter (Potomac Falls, Va.), Manisha Bhat (Sterling, Va.), Pamela J. Carter (Manchester, N.H.), Sanjeev Chauhan (Ashburn, Va.), Ryan Karnas (Leesburg, Va.), Alan Stiffler (Sterling, Va.) and Dewang Lakhani (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving ...