ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,642, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Blackthorn IP LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Systems and methods for linking data entries in database systems" was invented by Russell E. Fowles (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Chase Kitteridge (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Michael Bonner (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for data ingestion, database management, and data security. A method includes storing a plurality of data entries in a project bucket on a database, wherein the plurality of data entries represents information applicable to a plurality of data units associated with a project. The method includes organ...