ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,313, issued on June 30, was assigned to NewsGenie Inc. (Mesa, Ariz.).

"Moderating comments with adaptive trust and bias detection" was invented by Jeffrey Don Crump (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for moderating comments with adaptive trust and bias detection are described. In some implementations, a user comment associated with a user profile may be received and analyzed for sentiment and bias against predefined bias categories. If no bias is detected, the comment may be posted to a platform, and a trust score associated with the user profile may be updated based on predefined trust score ru...