ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,718, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TURBOPASS Corp. (Helotes, Texas).

"Consumer-authorized controlled distribution of trusted source data" was invented by Kenneth Jarman (San Antonio) and Michael Jarman (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to a 3rd Party Asset Verification module (3PAV module) embodied in a computer system configured to: (1) transmit a unique access code to at least one entity, the unique access code (1a) associated with a user and the user's asset information, and (1b) permits access to the user's asset information stored in the controlled access data store, and (2)...