US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for verifying the authenticity of documents" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,217, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for verifying the authenticity of documents" was invented by Arthur Quentin Smith (Fredericksburg, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ensuring the authenticity of imaged documents by embedding data into the images of such documents. The embedded data can then be extracted and decoded, and used to determine whether a particular document may be fraudulent. The documents may be checks, money orders, contracts, invoices, titles or other legal documents that may need to have their authenticity...