ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,584, issued on July 8, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Real-time servicing of verification queries using hybrid data sources" was invented by Juan Martin Bertolino (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Sankar Rao Penumacha (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a verification system can receive a verification query from a verifier computing system for requesting verification of characteristics of an entity involved in an online interaction. The verification query can include a unique identifier ("UID") of the entity. The verification computing system can query a verification repository in the verification computing s...