US Patent Issued to Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America on Aug. 25 for "Automatic benchmarking for benefit plan portals and related systems" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,200, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Empower Annuity Insurance Co. of America (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Automatic benchmarking for benefit plan portals and related systems" was invented by David J. Nocera (New Milford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A benefit plan service and related methods determine holistic plan scores indicating the general effectiveness of a benefit plan. The service may periodically access one or more plan parameter values for a plurality of benefit plans. Then, the service may calculate a respective plan score for each of the plurality of benefit plans. Calculating a plan score for a benefit plan m...