ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,420, issued on Jan. 13.

"System and method for social media forensics" was invented by Marko Sopic (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Robert Oreb (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Kathiravan Rajasekar (Bangalore, India) and Varun Kumbheshwar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for social media monitoring, the method including: collecting data associated with a social media upload; determining subscriber identity information associated with the social media upload; creating an IPDR based on the subscriber identity and social media upload data; receiving a query having at least one social media upload event; d...