ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,605, issued on July 7, was assigned to TRUA LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for a trust evaluation and sharing system" was invented by Jeff Highman (McLean, Va.), Raj Ananthanpillai (McLean, Va.) and Jason Pellegrino (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a trust profile using a computer includes receiving personal information from a user at the computer, gathering biographical information about the user, validating the personal information from the gathered biographical information, collecting risk information regarding the user according to the validated personal information from at least one data sou...