ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,721, issued on April 21, was assigned to REPTRAK HOLDINGS INC. (Boston).
"System and method for determining and managing reputation of entities and industries through use of behavioral connections" was invented by Charles Fombrun (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Mark Haseltine (Wayland, Mass.), Anna Litvak-Hinenzon (Newton, Mass.) and Cees van Riel (Breda, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining and managing reputation of an entity or industry includes determining a sample size of the population that provides at least a pre-defined percent confidence interval, and which has the predefined level of fami...