ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,998, issued on March 18.
"System and method for qualifying collected data" was invented by James Anderson (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Thomas J. Saleh (Stamford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improvement to a system for identity verification is provided in which data records are continuously updates to provide the validation, verification and trusted confidence values of an entity (an individual person or organization) for each type and level of identification needed. In addition to the iterative updating of conventional data, the historical change in recorded data is compared with newly received entity identification verific...