ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,579, issued on June 17, was assigned to Reputation.com Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Entity scoring calibration" was invented by Bradley William Null (Millbrae, Calif.), Hsin-Wei Tsao (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Rui Li (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Entity scoring calibration includes receiving values for a metric by which to calibrate a reputation scoring model. The reputation scoring model is usable to determine a reputation score. The reputation scoring model to be calibrated is based at least in part on a set of model parameters associated with reputation scoring components. It further includes receiving a plurality...