ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,677, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for identifying abusive content items" was invented by Henry Scott-Green (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Silviu Bota (Horgen, Switzerland) and Christoph Renner (Rotkreuz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for identifying abusive content items are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, at a server from a user device associated with a user, a request to provide user-generated content on a media content platform; in response to receiving the request, determining whether the user-g...