US Patent Issued to Applied Decision Research on April 29 for "Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to evaluate truthfulness or bias in online content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,840, issued on April 29, was assigned to Applied Decision Research LLC (Middletown, Del.).

"Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to evaluate truthfulness or bias in online content" was invented by Travis Trammell (Stanford, Calif.) and Richard Kim (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising identifying a content item having stated facts and/or opinions which a user is unsure whether to trust; during a first time period, obtaining first content evaluations of the content item from first users, each first content evaluation evaluating a belief state of the stated facts and/or opinions; displaying the fir...