ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,591, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Block template creation" was invented by Yair Pike (New York), Harshita Daddala (New York), Elizabeth Gao (New York), Lauren Miller (New York), Claire Casaregola (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 create a template in an integrated development environment. A set of tiles is displayed within a first area of a graphical user interface. Each tile corresponds to a set of data nodes that are composable into structured data objects according to a domain-specific language. A structured data ...