US Patent Issued to Gregory Gapp on Jan. 27 for "Social media moderation and cyberbullying prevention system" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,790, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Gregory Gapp (Hopkinsville, Ky.).

"Social media moderation and cyberbullying prevention system" was invented by Joshua Gapp (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Angela Gapp (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing cyberbullying on a social media messaging platform by limiting comments to user submitted content posts to only two-user conversation exchanges between the author of the content post and the person initiating the conversation exchange. The two users in the conversation exchange are able to submit replies only when it is their turn such that both participants may term...