ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,290, issued on July 15, was assigned to CONTEXAI LTD. (London).

"Multi-task neural network for toxicity detection" was invented by Lucia Specia (London), Marina Fomicheva (Barcelona, Spain), Ozan Caglayan (London) and Zhenhao Li (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification provides a computer-implemented method for detecting toxic user-generated textual content. The method comprises obtaining input data comprising a representation of user-generated textual content. A toxicity prediction and a prediction for each of one or more attributes for the user-generated textual content are generated by processing the input data us...