US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Scrubbing for edge based communication of commercial communications" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,219, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scrubbing for edge based communication of commercial communications" was invented by Shilpa Shetty (Sydney), Jignesh Karia (Thane, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama (Bangalore, India) and Neha Shah (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge device can receive a commercial communication, a scrubbed token list and a telephone number list. Responsive to determining the mobile device is detected in the specific area, whether a telephone number of the mobile device is contained in the tele...