ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,975, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for stir-shaken attestation using SPID" was invented by Mohammedali Merchant (New York) and Yitao Sun (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for evaluating call metadata and certificates of inbound calls for authentication. The computer identifies a service provider indicated by the SPID and/or the ANI (or other identifier) of the metadata and identifies a service provider indicated by the SPID and/or ANI (or other identifier) of the certificate, then compares identities of the service providers and/or...