ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,494, issued on July 29, was assigned to Verosint Inc. (Liberty Hill, Texas).

"Method and system for making identity decisions" was invented by Mark Batchelor (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Stephen Shoaff (Leander, Texas), Sloan Childers (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico), John Fowler (Austin, Texas), Travis Favaron (Austin, Texas), Tim Fields (Georgetown, Texas) and Bo Li (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and computer system for quantifying identity risk associated with an agent's request for access to online resources using valid credentials of an authorized user. The likelihood that the agent is the authorized u...