ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,549, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CDK Global LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Methods of synchronizing hierarchical databases and related computing systems" was invented by Tom Philpot (Austin, Texas), Vijaya Babu Srireddy (Austin, Texas) and Gennadiy Polyachenko (Artesia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of synchronizing destination hierarchical databases to source hierarchical databases and related computing systems are disclosed. A method includes detecting a change to source hierarchical data stored by the source hierarchical databases, which are organized into two or more hierarchical levels including a highest level and o...