ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,737, issued on March 31, was assigned to IPAR LLC (San Francisco).
"Word offensiveness detection and processing" was invented by Joseph L. Spears (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying language that would be considered obscene or otherwise offensive to a user or proprietor of a system. A plurality of offensive words are received, where each offensive word is associated with a severity score identifying the offensiveness of that word. A string of words is received. A distance between a candidate word and each offensive word in the plurality of offensive wo...