ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,175, issued on April 29, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Automated path-based recommendation for risk mitigation" was invented by Stephen Miller (Leeds, Great Britain), Lewis Jordan (Atlanta), Matthew Turner (Cumming, Ga.), Mark Day (Leeds, Great Britain) and Allan Joshua (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated path-based recommendation for risk mitigation are provided. An entity assessment server, responsive to a request for a recommendation for modifying a current risk assessment score of an entity to a target risk assessment score, accesses an input attribute vector for the entity and clus...