ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,210, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Consolidation of data sources for expedited validation of risk assessment data" was invented by Theresa Huber (Ballwin, Mo.), Dileep John (St. Louis), Balaji Mudduluri (Chesterfield, Mo.), Muhammad Arshad (Valley Park, Mo.), Kishore Kumar Katabathuni (Chesterfield, Mo.), Saratchandra Golla (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Akshay Reddy Vontari (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for consolidating data sources for expediting validation processes are described herein. A user interface can be provided to a first entity. First risk assessment data associate...