ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,520, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HITRUST Services Corp. (Frisco, Texas).

"Pre-quality assurance quality assessment" was invented by Jeremy Huval (Celina, Texas) and Bryan Cline (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pre-quality assurance (QA) quality estimation (PQE) includes uploading an audit documentation into a memory workspace of an audit data processing system, parsing the audit documentation to identify one or more control statements and one or more textual comments, characterizing the audit documentation according to a set of individual PQE Checks processing a formatting of the audit documentation and a facial a...