ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,177, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Infosys Ltd. (Bangalore, India) and InvertIT Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for contracts in graph-based models" was invented by Steven Schilders (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for access management in graph-based model is provided. The graph-based model comprises a plurality of nodes and an overlay structure comprising processing logic. The overlay structure is associated with one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes. Processing circuitry determines a first node group of the graph-based model. The first node group comprises at least one node. The proces...