US Patent Issued to GROKIT DATA on March 17 for "Distributed actor-based information system and method" (Washington, Vermont, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,995, issued on March 17, was assigned to GROKIT DATA INC. (Issaquah, Wash.).

"Distributed actor-based information system and method" was invented by James A. Harding (Issaquah, Wash.), Scott Thibault (Colchester, Vt.), Jason A. Boatman (Georgetown, Texas) and Phillip A Quinn (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for maintaining a group of distributed actors, wherein each of the distributed actors offers at least one skill; receiving a request from a user concerning a unfulfilled need; assigning one or more distributed actors to address the unfulfilled nee...