US Patent Issued to Elisa on Oct. 20 for "Automated fraud call detection" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,782, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).

"Automated fraud call detection" was invented by Marko Halme (Helsinki), Pekka Aalto (Helsinki), Tapio Hannula (Helsinki), Timo Junninen (Helsinki), Jukka Pietarinen (Helsinki) and Kalle Tomi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automatically detecting a fraud call. A call request is received from a caller device to initiate a voice call with a called device at a local Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). The call request is identified originating from a foreign Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). In response to detecting that a caller ID...