ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,927, issued on June 24, was assigned to Techjutsu Properties Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Methods and systems for verification of an affiliation of a call initiator with an organization" was invented by Tracey Nyholt (Calgary, Canada), Kevin Klitzke (Calgary, Canada) and Michael Bond (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying, by a receiver during a call, an alleged affiliation of an initiator with an organization comprises: receiving an initiator request comprising one or more first identifiers; generating a verification secret in response to the initiator request; sending the verification secret to the initi...