ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,308, issued on June 16, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"Bi-directional enterprise software integration with collaboration tools" was invented by Daniel Wayne Crowley (Crestwood, Mo.), David M. Senak (Avon, Conn.), Eva Angela Magee (St. Louis), Jeremy Walter (Chandler, Ariz.), Jocelyn Amy DeMaio (Glastonbury, Conn.), John Gerard Buccetti (Wallingford, Conn.), Julie Ann Reed (Coventry, Conn.), Rajesh Kamlakar Nerurkar (Charlotte, N.C.), Richard W. Schaefer (New Britain, Conn.), Sona O. Sliker (Charleston, S.C.) and Wayne W. Church (Clinton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enterprise platform ...