US Patent Issued to Chenope on May 6 for "System to detect, assess and counter disinformation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,289, issued on May 6, was assigned to Chenope Inc. (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

"System to detect, assess and counter disinformation" was invented by Elizabeth Charnock (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Steve Roberts (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) and Kathrin Haag (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable medium for the identification, measurement, and combatting of the influence of large-scale creation and distribution of disinformation is herein disclosed. An embodiment of this invention is comprised of one or more repositories of data which involve online comments and articles and attributes derived from them, one o...