ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,618, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to WWW.TRUSTSCIENCE.COM INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Extrapolating trends in trust scores" was invented by Chris Trudel (Edmonton, Canada) and Ashif Mawji (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for extrapolating trends in trust scores. A trust score may reflect the trustworthiness, reputation, membership, status, and/or influence of the entity in a particular community or in relation to another entity. An entity's trust score may be calculated based on data from a variety of data sources, and this data may be updated periodically as data is updated and...