ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,578, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for machine learning based prediction of social media influence operations" was invented by Meysam Alizadeh (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Jacob Shapiro (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a machine learning based method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for identifying content on social media related to one or more coordinated influence efforts are disclosed. The method includes generating one or more datasets of post-uniform resource locator (URL) pairs produc...