ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,318, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Content editing software via automatic and auditable authorship attribution" was invented by Christopher Ziolkowski (Burnsville, Minn.), Valerie Lancelle (Caledonia, Wis.) and Christopher Davis (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content editor or a plugin thereto automatically generates authorship tokens that identify content authored by a human author or an artificial author. The authorship tokens are applied to the work while the work is being produced. Thus, subsequent review of the work can identify regions produced by a human author a...