ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,206, issued on Jan. 20.

"System to facilitate factually accurate online debates" was invented by Satyam Dhar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to facilitate factually accurate online debates includes a storage device, a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, a first means for causing a first device to display a first user interface that includes a pass the microphone button that when selected causes the ability to communicate to be transferred from a first user to a second user, a second means for causing a second device to display a second user interface that includes a request the microphone b...