ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,130, issued on May 20, was assigned to TrofiVentures LLC (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for decentralized user controlled social media" was invented by Mike Love (Austin, Texas) and Blake Love (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for accessing a decentralized user controlled social media platform receives, from an user computing device, a user authentication token for the decentralized user controlled social media platform. The computer system determines that the user authentication token is valid for access to a user account at the decentralized user controlled social media platform. Additionally, the...