US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 8 for "Combating false information with crowdsourcing" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,172, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Combating false information with crowdsourcing" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Yian Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for combating false advertising using crowdsourcing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a false digital component alert indicating that a digital component presented at a client device includes false information, validating the false digital component alert based on a public key to verify digital signa...