US Patent Issued to U.S. Bank National Association on April 21 for "Auditable authorship attribution with automatically applied authorship tokens" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,178, issued on April 21, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Auditable authorship attribution with automatically applied authorship tokens" was invented by Christopher Ziolkowski (Burnsville, Minn.), Valerie Lancelle (Caledonia, Wis.) and Christopher Davis (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content editor or a plugin thereto automatically generates authorship tokens that identify content authored by a human author or an artificial author. The authorship tokens are applied to the work while the work is being produced. Thus, subsequent review of the work can identify regions produced by a human au...