US Patent Issued to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for assigning a reliability score for tip submissions" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,054, issued on July 15, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Method and apparatus for assigning a reliability score for tip submissions" was invented by Eamon Bracht (La Grange, Ill.), James A Niewiara (Elmhurst, Ill.), Minjoong Kim (Savoy, Ill.), Jacob D Rubin (Long Grove, Ill.) and Kruthi Challa (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing a reliability score for a submitted tip is provided herein. During operation, when a user anonymously submits an image to a tipping server, the tipping server determines if an imager (e.g., a camera) used to capture the image has been used to capture...