ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,138, issued on June 30, was assigned to Infosys Ltd. (Bangalore, India) and InvertIT Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"In-situ messaging history in graph-based models" was invented by Steven Schilders (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overlay system is provided that includes processing circuitry and a storage element that stores an executable graph-based model including various active nodes, various history message nodes, and various history overlay nodes. Each active node is associated with one or more history overlay nodes that facilitate the creation and maintenance of one or more history message nodes associated therewith. ...