ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,265, issued on April 14, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for synchronized locking of network data records" was invented by Aaron Tenbuuren (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Sam MacGinty (Boston), Curtis Gerrard Lush (Etobicoke, Canada) and Brian Arthur Oddo (Somers, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synchronized locking of network data records are disclosed. A system can provide, at a first client device and a second client device, respective application interfaces for generating a shared network data record. The system can receive a first selection of a first data structure fro...