ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,261, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HATHA SYSTEMS LLC (Washington).

"System and method for determining and representing a lineage of business terms across multiple software applications" was invented by Ioan Mihai Oara (Raleigh, N.C.) and Mikhail Bulyonkov (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining the flow of one or more business terms between a plurality of software applications. The system includes extracting data from the source code data which includes a plurality of technical artifacts. An application model unit generates an application model that includes a representation of sel...