ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,497, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SNAPWISE INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Event verification engine" was invented by Sukhsagar Jolly (Brampton, Canada), Jan Kulinski (Mississauga, Canada) and Guy Streetley (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for verifying information relating to an event. The computer system includes a network interface and a processor to receive a media feed containing information related to a potential event, identify the potential event and determine a location of the potential event from the information in the media feed, and solicit verification of information relating to the po...