ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,007, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PwC Product Sales LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for measuring trust" was invented by Chung-Sheng Li (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Luisa Breidt (Long Island City, N.Y.), Kazi Islam (Broomall, Pa.), Jeffrey Kevin Dicker (West Hempstead, N.Y.), Matthew Lawrence Messina (New York), Ali Rusta-Sallehy (Lafayette, Calif.), Winnie Cheng (West New York, N.J.), Joseph David Voyles (Louisville, Ky.), Scott Likens (Austin, Texas) and Anand Srinivasa Rao (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity trust index relating to an entity may indicate a trustworthiness level of the entity. To generate an e...