US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on March 17 for "Alignment analysis for detecting misinformation in online content" (Philippine Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,202, issued on March 17, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Alignment analysis for detecting misinformation in online content" was invented by Paul Miguel Babon (Mandaluyong, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online content is received in a user computer over the public Internet. A target text of the online content is selected to check for misinformation. A search query is generated using the target text. An online search is performed using the search query to generate a first set of search results. Another online search is performed using an opposite search query, which conveys a meaning that disagrees with the tar...