ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,758, issued on May 5, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Digital security and access control for credit information" was invented by Janelle Denice Dziuk (Falls City, Texas), Jon D. Mceachron (Boerne, Texas) and Steven Michael Bernstein (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems described herein are directed to controlling access to and the distribution of credit information. A credit information access manager can maintain accounts for users and third party accessors wishing to access user credit information. The credit information access manager to generate an identifier...