US Patent Issued to EQUIFAX on March 31 for "Risk assessment for personally identifiable information associated with controlling interactions between computing systems" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,926, issued on March 31, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Risk assessment for personally identifiable information associated with controlling interactions between computing systems" was invented by Ramin Madarshahian (Spring, Texas), Matthew Jones (Boise, Idaho), Rohit Gangurde (Boise, Idaho) and Joshua Johnston (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can generate a risk assessment associated with an identity element used in interactions associated with a user entity. For example, the system can receive historical data related an identity element associated with a user entity, the identity element used in a set...