ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,186, issued on April 15, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Caller identifier" was invented by Parag Garg (Woodinville, Wash.), Derrick Ives (North Bend, Wash.) and Michele Lundahl (Yarrow Point, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a caller identifier are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a server, a request to initiate a telephone call between a calling phone and a callee phone, wherein the request includes a telephone number of the calling phone. The actions fu...