ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,927, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Abnormal AI Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Federated database for establishing and tracking risk of interactions with third parties" was invented by Jeshua Alexis Bratman (New York), Yu Zhou Lee (San Francisco), Lawrence Stockton Moore (San Francisco), Rami Faris Habal (San Francisco) and Lei Xu (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are computer programs and computer-implemented techniques for generating and then managing a federated database that can be used to ascertain the risk in interacting with vendors. At a high level, the federated database allows knowledge regarding the reputati...