ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,994, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Safetonet Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Artificial intelligence system and method for automatic content detection and blocking" was invented by Ahmed Husseini Orabi (Ottawa), Mahmoud Husseini Orabi (Ottawa), Richard Pursey (Martlesham, Great Britain), Ian Brown (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Emily Nicholass (Canterbury, Great Britain) and Jack Pursey (Faversham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embedded artificial intelligence system for preventing exposure to, and the creation of, inappropriate content by automatically detecting and blocking harmful content, including self-gene...