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Article: GEORGIA INVENTORS DEVELOP DISPOSABLE TELEPHONE NUMBER SERVICE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- January 15, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 15 - Four inventors from Georgia, have developed a method for providing a disposable telephone number to telephone service subscribers. The inventors are Randy McDonald of Roswell, Ga., James C. Bedingfield of Lilburn, Ga., Odie H. Garrison of Alpharetta, Ga., Terry R. Droke of Woodstock, Ga. The inventors issued U.S. Patent No. 7,469,043 on Dec. 23, 2008.
The patent has been assigned to AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property Inc., Wilmington, Germany. The original application was filed on Dec. 21, 2000.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that enables a telephone service subscriber to maintain ...