ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,537, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bumble IP Holdco LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Real-time safe social networking" was invented by Daniil Baryshnikov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for safe social networking environment. In some implementations, a server receives a request to activate a live sharing feature, the live sharing feature enabling access to a location and a status of a first user. The server obtains data identifying a set of trusted users for the first user. The server determines that an in-person engagement of the firs...