ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,593, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).
"Due diligence systems and methods" was invented by Bret Beresford-Wood (San Francisco), Amanda Grosse (New York), Adam Ross (New York), Kevin Asuncion (San Francisco), Tom Solodyna (Maynard, Mass.) and Eric Folkemer (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing due diligence on electronically stored documents is provided. A dynamic due diligence item (DDDI) is created by one user and associated with a particular document or piece of information by the system. The created DDDI is assigned to another user. The created DDDI is then routed by the system...