ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,916, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Collaborative cloud identity and credential forgery and abuse defense" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a cloud identity verification exchange service which ingests a plurality of identity assertion data from various Identity Providers and/or Service Providers and aggregates the ingested plurality of data into a master global authentication ledger. The system and method comprise: a data ingestion engine configured for acquiring, extracting, and loading data i...