ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,721, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Reputation.com Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Feedback attribution" was invented by Bradley William Null (Millbrae, Calif.), Pranav Desai (San Mateo, Calif.), Hsin-wei Tsao (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hao Xu (Newark, Calif.) and Dean Mao (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feedback attribution includes receiving a feedback item pertaining to an entity. It further includes receiving information pertaining to a plurality of candidate sources of the feedback item. It further includes determining a probabilistic mapping between the feedback item and the plurality of candidate sources. Determining t...