ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,027, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for suspect scoring using layered network based on criminal case and related person" was invented by Hyun Jung Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jong Ho Jhee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scoring suspects in a criminal case includes: obtaining a case network including a plurality of case nodes corresponding to a plurality of cases and a plurality of edges connecting different case nodes; obtaining a people network including a plurality of person nodes cor...