ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,229, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Finicity Corp. (Murray, Utah).

"Trust root system for verification of user consents" was invented by John M. Davies (Syracuse, Utah), Steven B. Smith (Salt Lake City), Nicholas A. Thomas (Orem, Utah) and Nicholas Bryan Baguley (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server includes a consent repository and a consent management interface. The consent repository is configured to store data and one or more existing consent receipts. A method performed by the server includes receiving a customer ID that corresponds to a customer. The customer ID is matched to a universal ID stored on the s...