ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,303, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Trust score investigation" was invented by Alex Grigoryan (San Jose, Calif.), Avinash Gangadharan (Fremont, Calif.), Akshay Peshave (Baltimore), Michael Morgan (Fremont, Calif.) and Rhys Howell (Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for investigating trust scores. A trust score is calculated based on peer transfers, a graphical user interface displays actuatable elements associated with a first peer transfer from the peer transfers, in response to receiving an indication the first actuatable element has been actuated, recalculating the t...