ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,079, issued on July 28, was assigned to ARBEIT SOFTWARE LLC (Cheektowaga, N.Y.).
"System and method for cellular origination identification" was invented by Alex Villafranca (Oakland, Fla.) and Gregory Houston (Orchard Park, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically determining when a phone number has been improperly negatively labelled, such as spam, by a carrier or third-party labelling service. The system and method use a pool of registered cellular devices to monitor a user provided originating call number, specifically monitoring the originating call number label being attributed to the originatin...