ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,979, issued on July 14, was assigned to Essential Credential Exchange LLC (Greenback, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for ingesting credential information" was invented by Anthony Begando (Tampa, Fla.), Matthew M. Sylvestre (Norfolk, Mass.) and Tami L. Hansen (Easton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selective data ingestion into an exchange platform for verified credentials includes receiving credential data associated with first users (participants) in native file formats. For each participant, the received credential data is converted into a first participant credential set (PCS) according to a markup language format...