ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,545, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Determining whether an incoming communication is a spam or valid communication" was invented by Phi Hoang Nguyen (Lacey, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives a request for communication from an originator UE. The request for communication includes a unique identifier of the originator UE and a unique identifier of a receiver UE. The system obtains profile information of the originator UE including a name or a region of the originator UE. The system obtains profile information of the receiver UE including a communication history or calen...