ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,366, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating a tokenized reputation score" was invented by Tatjana Vlahovic (San Jose, Calif.) and Someshekhar Banerjee (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating tokenized reputation scores are described. In one example, a service provider system receives data describing user activity associated with a service provider account and determines that the user activity is eligible for a reputation reward of reputation tokens. The service provider system initiates a calculation of the reputation reward based on the data describing...