US Patent Issued to Scam Off on April 21 for "System, method, and apparatus for initiating outbound communications from a user device" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,937, issued on April 21, was assigned to Scam Off Ltd. (Pittsburgh).

"System, method, and apparatus for initiating outbound communications from a user device" was invented by Joseph A. Charlson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system including at least one processor configured to detect a communication request for a communication between a protected party and a second party, in response to determining the communication originated from the second party, determine if an identity of the second party is verified by the originating service provider based on at least one of STIR/SHAKEN attestation or a network oper...