ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,771, issued on Aug. 25.

"Structured data collection, presentation, validation and workflow management" was invented by Matthew Fedderly (Baltimore), Cooper Bills (Fremont, Calif.), Geoffrey Bakker (Washington), Kunal Marwaha (Washington) and Nathaniel Klein (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing decoupled front-end and back-end processes is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first result of user interaction with a first front-end interface; determining that the first result represents a validation of a data item entered via the first front-end interface; mapping the data item in a validated form to a...