ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,438, issued on June 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Spoofed telephone call identifier" was invented by Parag Garg (Woodinville, Wash.), Derrick Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Michele Lundahl (Yarrow Point, Wash.) and Helen Wang (Seattle).
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 spoofed telephone call identifier are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating a placement of a telephone call from a second computing device to a third computi...