ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,212, issued on April 14, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Compiling and executing structured data" was invented by Ian James Micallef (London), Lucian Huluta (London), Kranti Midha (London), Wayne Liao (London), Richard Stephen Saunders (London), Michael David Scott (London) and Kyrylo Kniazev (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for processing rules expressed in a domain-specific language. A computing system may receive a rule including an entity identifier, a property of the entity, and one or more logical operators delimited by syntactic tokens of the language. The rule is parsed into an abstra...