ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,848, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOBLIS INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Data investigation and visualization system" was invented by Kyle Nicolas Forsyth (Fairfax, Va.), Mark Jason Sanders (Reston, Va.), Adam Keith Korobow (Bristow, Va.), Eric Richard McCabe (Reston, Va.), Mychal William Ivancich (Reston, Va.), David Michael Peters (Ashburn, Va.) and Cody Steven Jenkins (Mount Clare, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data investigations are performed by querying a plurality of data sources. A system receives an investigation input and queries a plurality of data sources in accordance with the received input. The system receives, in r...