ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,718, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for digital data valuation" was invented by Anto Chirayil Thomas (Coppell, Texas), Subhalakshmi Selvam (Allen, Texas), Charlotte Thomas Creech (San Antonio), Nathan Lee Post (Rockport, Texas), Mathew Cyriac Kottoor (San Antonio), Nina Cooper (San Antonio) and Reynaldo Medina III (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques provided herein employ a data crawler to sort through data stored on an electronic device to enable classification of data based on certain characteristics. For example, the data crawl...