ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,157, issued on July 14, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Block level document revision" was invented by Claire Casaregola (New York), Harshita Daddala (New York), Yair Pike (New York), Lauren Miller (New York) and Michael Greene (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program manage revisions in a document. The document is displayed in a graphical user interface. The document comprises a structured data object composed from a set of tiles, wherein each tile corresponds to one or more data nodes. The tiles are composable according to a domain-specific language of an integrated develo...