US Patent Issued to FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION (FREDDIE MAC) on Aug. 11 for "Database and file management for data validation and authentication" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,123, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION (FREDDIE MAC) (McLean, Va.).

"Database and file management for data validation and authentication" was invented by David M. Wilson (Centreville, Va.), Ann Epstein (Vienna, Va.), Kathleen W. Scanlon (Potomac, Md.), David F. Owens (Broadlands, Va.), Rajasekhar Penugonda (Ashburn, Va.) and Raghu Kurlagunda (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request including unauthenticated data is created and securely transmitted to a remote device that indicates a successful validation. A response file associated with the remote device is validated. A discrepancy...