ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,504, issued on April 14, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Integrated agent-driven data framework" was invented by William Franklin Cameron (Jackson, Fla.) and Prithvi Narayana Rao (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for providing a centralized data store that receives and transmits data via agents that operate independently of one another. In some implementations, the agents transform data prior to transmission to the centralized data store. In some implementations, the centralized data store is configured to transform data. The centralized data store...