ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,828, issued on May 27, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Verification of electronic identity components" was invented by Rajkumar Bondugula (Marietta, Ga.), Piyushkumar Patel (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Sunit Sivaraj (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit-classification system receives a data set with identity data objects corresponding to personal identity components. Feature vectors are determined for the identity data objects. A trained classifier model determines, based on a feature vector for each identity data object, whether the corresponding personal identity components are included in a identity componen...