ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,384, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Device information determination for anonymous calls" was invented by Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.), Raymond Thomas Ball (Seattle), Hichem Zait (Bellevue, Wash.) and Joel Arends (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining contact information for an anonymous device on a telecommunications network are described herein. The telecommunications network can implement a server to determine data representing a callback number or other subscriber information for a user equipment (UE) associated with an anonymous status. The serv...