ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,270, issued on April 29, was assigned to DecisionQuest Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).
"Online jury research system" was invented by Philip Anthony (Laguna Beach, Calif.) and Michael Cobo (Redondo Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method are provided for an online jury research system which enables a multiplicity of end-users to build surrogate jury surveys by way of a communications network, such as the Internet. The online jury research system comprises a survey builder which enables the end-users to upload information for which responses of surrogate jurors are desired and to assemble surrogate jury surveys. ...