Veritable Data Solutions holds the patents that end deed fraud.
U.S. Patent No. 12,518,331, issued in January 2026, links a paper document to a permanent digital record the moment it's notarized. If anyone tries to change either one later, the mismatch is easy to detect — so a forged deed can't pass as real. Additional patents pending apply the same idea to documents of every kind.
Discuss licensingThe problem
A home can be stolen without a break-in.
Deed fraud starts with a forged signature, an impersonated notary, or a doctored document — modern technology enables criminals to circumvent notaries with little technical sophistication. Once that paper is filed at the county recorder's office, it joins the public record and carries the same legal weight as a real deed. The damage follows: home equity loans drawn against properties their owners didn't sign for, houses sold to buyers who don't know the seller wasn't the real owner, families forced into court to get back what was never lawfully sold.
The options on the market today react after the fact. Alerts and monitoring services tell you a fraud has already happened. Traditional title insurance does not protect homeowners from title fraud that occurs after they own the home; it covers defects in the chain of title that predate the purchase. Both treat the consequences. Neither prevents the cause.
The solution
The single point where fraud can actually be stopped is the moment of notarization.
Stopping fraud at notarization takes two things at once. First, the notary has to verify who the signer really is, using tools that can catch a modern forgery. Second, that verification has to be saved into a permanent record that no one can change later. Either step on its own leaves a gap fraud can exploit. Together, they close it.
Veritable's patent does this with a unique code, created at the moment a document is notarized. The code is printed on the paper itself, and the same code is saved to a permanent digital record that can't be altered afterward — not by the notary, not by anyone. To check whether a deed is real, anyone — a county clerk, a title officer, a bank, a buyer years later — reads the code on the paper, looks up the digital record, and compares the two. They have to match. If they don't, the deed isn't real.
Practical, technology-neutral, and ready for adoption within existing systems.
The patent
Patent No. 12,518,331
Patent No. 12,518,331 covers the unique code that links a paper document to its permanent digital record, created the moment the document becomes official. The patent has three main claims, each covering a separate step: how the code is created, how the same code is put on both the paper and the digital ledger, and how anyone can later check that the two match.
Additional patent applications apply the same approach to other kinds of documents. The first batch — currently being revised with patent counsel — covers documents notarized remotely by video call and the official seals that architects and engineers put on construction plans and permits.
The co-founder
Twenty years prosecuting deed fraud informed the patent.
David Fleck is a former Deputy District Attorney in the Real Estate Fraud Section of the Major Fraud Division at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He is the co-author, with detectives of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, of California Assembly Bill 886, the first state legislation in the United States to specifically address deed fraud.
He chairs the Mortgage Fraud Task Force of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators and has trained personnel at the FDIC, the SEC, Fannie Mae, and federal interagency working groups on the prosecution and prevention of real estate fraud. He is the author of Preventing Deed Fraud: A Legislative Framework (April 2026) and Fraud Investigations 101 (2023). He holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law.
Licensing
The architecture is ready. The partners we are looking for already operate the platforms where it deploys.
The architecture is designed to improve existing systems rather than replace them. Notarization, document recording, title insurance, and professional credentialing all work — they just need an upgrade that closes the gap modern forgery exploits.
Veritable Data Solutions licenses its patent to operators across title insurance, notarization, document recording, real estate transaction platforms, and the wider document authentication industry. We're open to straight license agreements, partnerships, and joint ventures — whatever structure makes commercial sense for both sides.
Every inquiry is read by the co-founder.