ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,998, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Discord Inc. (San Francisco).
"Detecting online contextual evolution of linguistic terms" was invented by Michele Banko (San Francisco) and Taylor Rhyne (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting online contextual evolution of linguistic terms. Within messaging sources, some users may actively attempt to (relatively quickly) shift the meaning of a word or term. Some users may attempt to perjorate a word or term to have a more toxic meaning. Other users may attempt to reappropriate a word or term to h...