ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,231, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Real-time and content analysis" was invented by Mihir Bhatt (Denver) and Jaynish Patel (Muskegon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for flagging a message may include receiving the message. The method may include determining, utilizing at least one machine learning model, a score for the message based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the message. The score may represent a likelihood that the message is an illegitimate message. The method may include updating a database to include the message, the score, and/or the one or mor...