US Patent Issued to Bandwidth on May 19 for "Methods and systems for providing actual number activation status" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,677, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bandwidth Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for providing actual number activation status" was invented by David Ress (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for providing actual telephone number activation status are provided. The methods include collecting information associated with telephone numbers (TNs), the information including carrier information, deactivation information and disconnection information associated with each of the TNs; analyzing the carrier information, deactivation information and disconnection information for each TN over a predetermined period of tim...