ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,209, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ClearForce Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"Systems and methods for electronically monitoring employees to determine potential risk" was invented by Jim Jones III (Chantilly, Va.), Norman Allen Willox Jr. (Annapolis, Md.) and Thomas James Miller (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer machines for electronically monitoring an employee's behavior to identify risk are described. A method includes receiving first data from legal databases that includes information regarding legal activity relating to the employee, receiving second data from financial databases that includes f...