ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,497, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CALMWAVE INC. (Seattle).

"Information management system and method" was invented by Ophir Ronen (Seattle), Justin Kearns (Lexington, Ky.), Keith Boudreau (Durham, N.C.), Christian Bauer (Frisco, Texas), Michael Gruzynski (Seattle), David Garner (Bothell, Wash.) and Thomas Dziedzic (Elmwood Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: receiving data signals from one or more first vendor devices; receiving data signals from one or more second vendor devices; and normalizing the data signals to generate a plurality of hom...