ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,845, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Notion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database-connected forms with validation rules and response automation" was invented by William Henry Cauchois (New York), Benjamin Isadore Hirsch (New York), Simon Townsend-Last (New York), Daniel Elliott Palmer (New York) and Rohan Jain (Hyderbad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for creating and processing forms within block-based workspaces provides connections between form questions and database properties. The computer system enables creation of forms either from scratch or based on existing database structures, with each form quest...