US Patent Issued to Equifax on July 29 for "Automated decision techniques for controlling resource access" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,424, issued on July 29, was assigned to Equifax Inc. (Atlanta).

"Automated decision techniques for controlling resource access" was invented by Todd Duncan Hoover (Suwanee, Ga.), Brandi Nicole Recker (Atlanta), William Charles Gates (Atlanta), Sean Patrick McKeown (Atlanta), Matthew Richard Jackson (Cumming, Ga.) and Dinesh Hiro Wadhwani (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A durability assessment system may receive a request, from a computing system, for a durability index describing an entity. The durability assessment system may determine the durability index based on information about the resource usage by the entity, ...