ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,746, issued on May 5.

"Social networking content supplemented web page linker" was invented by Terry Lee Torres (Neptune, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and system for non-intrusively associating encrypted supplemental content with web pages. The method involves creating user profiles for community-based content association, allowing users to create and manage supplemental content, and associating the content with specific web pages using URL, vision technology, and/or content recognition technologies. The system provides secure online transactions using smart contracts and blockchain tech...