ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,682, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Aetna Inc. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for user authentication using subject identifier and/or subject identifier documents" was invented by Abbie Barbir (Hartford, Conn.), Alan Bachmann (Hartford, Conn.), Erick Verry (Hartford, Conn.), Paul Ivanivsky (Hartford, Conn.), Cisa Kurian (Hartford, Conn.), Neal Shah (Hartford, Conn.) and Michael Streuling (Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some instances, a method is provided. The method comprises: based on a content request for content from a user device associated with a user, generating a subject identifier for the user...