ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,035, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TRUST GRADE LLC (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"System and method for customer review management" was invented by Kenneth L. Underwood (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Dennis Okon (North Falmouth, Mass.) and Katherine Underwood (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and method enables a business to manage negative and positive reviews of a purchased good or service. An example computing system may be configured to retrieve ratings and reviews relating to the business from a plurality of computing devices deployed within a communication network; extract data from the ratings ...