ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,343, issued on May 26, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Rule-based deconfliction of overlapping data" was invented by Edmund Barmettler (Round Rock, Texas), Adam Gentry (Danville, Calif.) and Claudia Smith (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer readable media, and devices for rule-based deconfliction of overlapping data are disclosed. An example method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes defining, with guidance from a human subject matter expert, a rule for resolving a conflict between a plurality of conflictin...