ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,188, issued on July 22, was assigned to WHISP Ltd. (London).

"Method of assessing the validity of factual claims" was invented by Luca Jonathan Bailey Frost (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of assessing the validity of factual claims determines if a purported factual claim, such as a statement made on social media, in the news, etc., is "true", "false" or "unknown" through comparison with corresponding ranked factual claims stored in a comparison database. The comparison database is assembled by storing a plurality of sets of digital content items, where each of the sets of digital content items has a unique topic. F...