ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,599, issued on April 15, was assigned to Capital Confirmation Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for obtaining accountant prepared financial statement confirmation" was invented by Charles Brian Fox (Brentwood, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method facilitates obtaining accountant prepared financial statements associated with a client. An accountant is identified to the confirmation system by a client, or the client is identified by the accountant, wherein financial statements associated with the client are received from the accountant via the communications network. The client is only allowed to review a...