ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,691, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Friction-less identity proofing during employee self-service registration" was invented by Kalyan VBH (Hyderabad, India), Frank Villavicencio (Roseland, N.J.) and Pavan Katamveera (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for proving identity when registering for a service includes presenting by the entity a user with options for registering for the service, wherein the options comprise validating an identity of the user through a trusted partner. The method includes receiving, by the entity, user data from the trusted partner responsive to the user l...