US Patent Issued to METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE on Oct. 21 for "Trust platform" (North Carolina, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,663, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE Co. (New York).

"Trust platform" was invented by John Bungert (Durham, N.C.), Terrance Luciani (Monroe Township, N.J.), Andrew O'Mara (New York), Jordan Ashleigh McAlister (Cary, N.C.) and Shaun Michael Walter (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trust platform receives transaction review values from a plurality of marketplace providers, each transaction review value associated with a person-to-person transaction. The platform weighs each transaction review value to generate a weighted transaction review value based on a characteristic of the transaction. A b...