ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,653, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Digital social networking framework with analytics dashboard" was invented by Shabnum Gulati (New York), Oluwakayode M Ajimatanrareje Jr. (Fremont, Calif.), Jordan Springstroh (Austin, Texas) and Trevor Nesbitt (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods may include (1) providing a selectable dashboard element within an interface of a dating application configured for a user of the dating application, (2) receiving user input selecting the dashboard element, and (3) in response to receiving the user input, pre...