US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 20 for "Validating and securing caller identification to prevent identity spoofing" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,282, issued on May 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Validating and securing caller identification to prevent identity spoofing" was invented by Lulia Ann Barakat (McKinney, Texas), Jeffrey Haltom (Fishers, Ind.), Duncan Archer (Durham, Great Britain), Michael Stovenour (McKinney, Texas) and Tolga Asveren (Bordentown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives call information associated with a call from a first user device to a second user device, where the first user device is associated with a first network, and the second user device is associated with a second network separa...