ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,206, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea) and S2W INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method of analyzing social influence between internet forums and apparatus for the same" was invented by Seung Won Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Jin Jin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chang Hoon Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of analyzing social influence. The method according to the embodiments includes obtaining posts containing text data in a forum, generating a forum interaction graph inclu...