US Patent Issued to Twilio on April 1 for "Verifying incoming communications" (Colombian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,358, issued on April 1, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Verifying incoming communications" was invented by Santiago Kantorowicz (Bogota, Colombia), Lucas Martin Vidal (Bogota, Colombia) and Serge Kruppa (Envigado, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for verifying an incoming communication. A recipient client device receives an incoming communication including an identifier identifying a second client device as having initiated the incoming communication. A verification service installed on the recipient client device queries a call placement ...