US Patent Issued to GRIFF AND ASSOCIATES on March 31 for "System for controlling and screening incoming calls" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,995, issued on March 31, was assigned to GRIFF AND ASSOCIATES LP (Fallsington, Pa.).

"System for controlling and screening incoming calls" was invented by Alex J. Phinn (Fallsington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for screening and routing incoming phone calls or text messages that includes an interceptor device which is operatively engaged with the phone and is arranged to receive all incoming calls or texts to the phone. When an incoming call or text to the phone is received by the interceptor device, programming provided in the interceptor device compares a phone number associated with the incoming call or text with ...