US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for tracking the provenance of information" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,156, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Method and apparatus for tracking the provenance of information" was invented by Jonathan D. Cohen (Glenwood, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a flow of information within a plurality of documents is provided. The method may include receiving the plurality of documents with each document having document content and a document timestamp. Based on the documents, the method may include constructing an inferred document causality forest by determining causal edges of the inferred document causality forest based on the document co...