US Patent Issued on June 3 for "System and method for risk evaluation and reputational scoring of social media accounts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,456, issued on June 3.

"System and method for risk evaluation and reputational scoring of social media accounts" was invented by Roger Martin (Del Mar, Calif.) and Doug Hecht (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of evaluating risk associated with a social media account. Content associated with the account and with social media accounts connected to the account is scanned. Collected data relating to the account content and the connected account content is stored. The account content is analyzed by determining one or more of characteristics of a posted image, parameters of posted comments, and changes in the list of connec...