ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,339, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Auditable system for event tracking" was invented by Jonathan Edward Neuse (Helotes, Texas), Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio), Lindsay Young (Lucas, Texas) and Nathan Fillinger (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workflow management system can be used to determine whether a set of transaction events have been properly processed according to a business process rule. A business process rule includes a set of transaction events setup in accordance with a government regulation or an internal company process. An event data may includ...