ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,262, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TruU Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Risk assessment framework for identity verification system" was invented by Lucas Allen Budman (Denver), Amitabh Agrawal (Superior, Colo.), Andrew Weber Spott (Boulder, Colo.) and Michael Ross Graf (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user characteristic data. An identity verification system receives a request from a requesting target user for access to an operational context and characteristic data describing actions of the requesting target user. The identity verification sys...