ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,138, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fidelity Information Services LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for tracking of data records" was invented by Ranadhir Ghosh (St Johns, Fla.), Ankit Arora (Delhi, India), Prajwal M (Bengaluru, India) and John Platais (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for tracking a data object in a data pipeline. The method may include receiving a data object from an data source; assigning a record number to the data object; determining a first tracking stamp for the data object; broadcasting the first tracking stamp to a channel of a record trackin...