ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,989, issued on March 31, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Detecting a spoofed call" was invented by Barrett Kreiner (Woodstock, Ga.) and Ryan Schaub (Norcross, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be operable to receive a call from a communication device and identify whether the call is a spoofed based on, for example, whether a caller party user equipment associated with a caller identification number (caller ID number) is in an "idle" status, whether there are inconsistencies in the geographic location associated with a calling party's network and the geographic location determined to be assoc...