ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,876, issued on June 24, was assigned to WWW.TRUSTSCIENCE.COM INC. (Edmonton, Canada).
"Searching for entities based on trust score and geography" was invented by Shane Chrapko (Edmonton, Canada), Christopher Trudel (Edmonton, Canada), Leo M. Chan (Edmonton, Canada), Zhaochen Guo (Edmonton, Canada) and Ashif Mawji (Edmonton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for searching for entities based on trust score and geography. The trust score may be calculated between entities including, but not limited to, human users, groups of users, organizations, or businesses/corporations and may t...