ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,556, issued on June 17, was assigned to Reputation.com Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Enterprise reputation evaluation" was invented by Brent Michael Franson (San Francisco), Jeffrey James Piper (Menlo Park, Calif.), Thomas Gerardo Dignan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shrey A. Bhatia (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enterprise reputation evaluation techniques are disclosed. Reputation data extracted from each of a plurality of data sources is received. The reputation data is associated with a plurality of physical locations of an enterprise entity. An aggregate reputation score is determined for the entity using at least a...