ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,586, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Telephonic fraud communication interception systems and methods" was invented by Bradford A. Shea (Mint Hill, N.C.), Carrie Anne Hanson (Charlotte, N.C.), Aaron L. Johnson (Charlotte, N.C.) and Tambra Nichols (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, over a first wired phone line interface of a computing device, a telephone call with an originating call identification; passing the telephone call to an attached phone over a second wired phone line interface; matching, at the computing device, the originating call ident...