ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,872, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEEKR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Vienna, Va.).

"Search system and method having civility score" was invented by Robin J. Clark (Vienna, Va.), Ali Taleb Zadeh Kasgari (Vienna, Va.) and Stefanos Poulis (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scoring system and method identifies personal attacks in a piece of audio content and generates a civility score for the piece of audio content that can differentiate between personal attacks and vernacular/casual banter. The piece of audio content may be a podcast."

The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/392,402.

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