US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on May 6 for "Automated generation of enhanced caller identification data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,672, issued on May 6, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated generation of enhanced caller identification data" was invented by Derrick Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Ovidiu Serban (Sammamish, Wash.), Adriana Padilla (Shoreline, Wash.), Samantha Klemm (Seattle) and Vanda Oliveira (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 automatically generating enhanced caller identification data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving telephone call placement data that indicates the placement of a...