Fama Technologies Granted U.S. Patent on Foundational AI-Powered Social Media Screening Technology
Fama Technologies Granted U.S. Patent on Foundational AI-Powered Social Media Screening Technology
Publish Date: 2026-05-29 05:02:00
Source Domain: huntscanlon.com
May 29, 2026 – Fama Technologies, providers of AI-powered online screening, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed all claims in its patent application covering the foundational technology behind social media background screening. The patent, titled “System for Searching and Correlating Online Activity with Individual Classification Factors,” has a priority date of November 30, 2015, establishing Fama as the original inventor of the technology that has since become a critical component of modern hiring and risk management.
“We’ve been building this technology since 2015, long before social media screening was recognized as an essential part of the hiring process,” said Ben Mones, founder and CEO of Fama Technologies. “This patent validates what our customers and partners already know: Fama didn’t just enter the online screening market, we created it. The core technology that powers the category was invented here.”
The allowed patent encompasses 22 claims spanning key components of Fama’s technology pipeline: extracting personally identifiable information from source documents, retrieving online activity from social media platforms and websites, transforming unstructured image data into structured datasets using object recognition, classifying content using machine learning algorithms trained on inter-rater agreements, and presenting results through an interactive reporting interface.
A Decade of Innovation
Fama’s patent journey began with a provisional application filed on November 30, 2015, when non-tech players in the market proliferated. Ever since, Fama has worked with a series of lawyers, IP experts, and USPTO examiners to navigate the patent approval process, eventually securing the IP in March 2026.
Over that period Fama’s feature set has also evolved to include video analysis, multilingual screening, and monitoring. It has also developed a series of unique approaches…
