ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,157, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Report management system" was invented by Israel Oliveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Allan Barcelos (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Renata Palazzo (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Leandro Bianchini (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Fernanda Tosca (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for generating reports. Existing reports are collected and modeled to determine a number of contexts. An index of the existing reports is generated according the contexts determined by the modeling, a predicted context of a new rep...