ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,981, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Phone number list management" 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 managing a phone number list are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, telephone call data that reflects characteristics of telephone calls placed and received by a first us...