ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,540, issued on July 21, was assigned to SafeHer Inc. (Naperville, Ill.).
"Dynamic, real-time service for discovering potential online deception relating to characteristics of people using internet dating applications" was invented by Philip Andrew Flocken (Denver), Kalie Marie Nitzsche (Naperville, Ill.), Jacqueline Saleem (Reno, Nev.) and Scott Snapp (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person (the user) interested in determining the authenticity of another person (the subject) enters the subject's name and other information into a mobile app or associated website. The subject information is then sent to a server program to auto...