ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,279, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BeAssured Co. (Little Rock, Ark.).
"Assured protocol online review validation system" was invented by Santoash Rajaram (Portland, Ore.), Karan Mishra (Glenview, Ill.) and Thomas Davenport (Little Rock, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrity of data (e.g., review data) provided via a computer network (e.g., the Internet) and relied upon by online consumers when making purchase decisions is assured using a blockchain protocol that conducts a machine learning enabled validation flow on a public blockchain with reward mechanisms designed to weed out fake and incentivized reviews. A machi...