US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on April 7 for "System, method, and computer program product for patient authentication and identity risk assessment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,073, issued on April 7, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for patient authentication and identity risk assessment" was invented by William Joseph Leddy III (Lakeway, Texas), Shengfei Gu (Austin, Texas) and Minghua Xu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for patient authentication and identity risk assessment. An example system includes a processor configured to receive an initial patient authorization request from a medical provider computing device and generate an authenticity scor...