ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,619, issued on June 24, was assigned to Modulate Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"User interface for content moderation of voice chat" was invented by William Carter Huffman (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Pappas (Cambridge, Mass.), Ken Morino (Acton, Mass.) and David Pickart (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content moderation system analyzes speech, or characteristics thereof, and determines a toxicity score representing the likelihood that a given clip of speech is toxic. A user interface displays a timeline with various instances of toxicity by one or more users for a give session. The user interface is optimized for moderation inte...