Recognizing Those Who Accelerate Innovation at Equifax
AS WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY APPROACHES, EQUIFAX ACKNOWLEDGES ITS IMPORTANCE IN ACCELERATING INNOVATION across the globe, including recognizing its own innovators who play a critical role in the company’s advancements. Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create.
As a global data, analytics, and technology company, exploration and innovation are imperative to the success of Equifax. Patents protect innovations that create products and solutions to empower customers to bring greater access to financial opportunity to more people in more places.
As of January 2025, Equifax has more than 300 approved patents across 12 countries, with more than 320 current and former Equifax employees inventing during their tenure by submitting or receiving patents.
Vickey Chang is one of those patent holders, securing six patents in the U.S. and nine internationally. Chang is the Vice President of U.S. Information Solutions Data and Analytics, leading the Consumer Risk Analytics team, and has been with the organization for almost 18 years. She thanked Equifax for “its continued investment in innovation, which drives customer value and helps consumers live their financial best.” Chang is an inventor in four different patent families (e.g., “inventions”), which have been filed over the past nine years and was also the first recipient of the Equifax Woman Inventor of the Year Award, awarded in 2023.
Equifax proudly recognizes all of its patent holders with the Equifax Patent Wall, which visually represents decades of hard work by showcasing the hundreds of patents that have been issued to employees over the years.
A critical component to Equifax accelerating innovation is the custom-built Equifax Cloud™, a top-tier global technology and security infrastructure backed by a more than $1.5 billion multi-year investment that continues to set the company apart in the industry. With the Equifax Cloud, the organization is expanding the depth and accuracy of its data and helping its customers innovate faster to create more effective insights into the people and communities they serve.
Central to the Equifax Cloud is its custom data fabric. The adaptable data platform unifies the enterprise’s data (from over 100 siloed data sources) in a single, virtual structure, while enabling critical data governance measures, including data segregation, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. It is powered by layering advanced analytics and AI with deep, proprietary, high-quality data. Data fabric offers the ability to ingest and analyze data at scale and leverages enhanced keying and linking of our data assets for rapid delivery of multi-data risk modeling solutions, as well as identity resolution and fraud prevention offerings.
As Equifax looks beyond World Intellectual Property Day, it will continue to encourage its employees to innovate, whether that is helping to create new patents, products or otherwise.
The complete Equifax Intellectual Property list can be found here.