ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,592, issued on May 27.
"System and methods for annotating offensive content" was invented by Trisha N. Prabhu (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate interception of messages that include offensive content. In one aspect, a method includes actions of receiving input on a user device that includes message content, determining, on the user device, whether the message content includes offensive content, and in response to determining, on the user device, that the message content includes offensive content, generating a...