ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,671, issued on July 14, was assigned to One Diligence LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for dataset evaluation and database management" was invented by Alex Goldovsky (Southampton, Pa.) and George Ter-Saakov (Voorhees, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data uploader uploads a first plurality of data values associated with a transaction. A document uploader uploads digital images of a plurality of documents associated with the transaction, wherein a second plurality of data values are embedded in the documents. The digital images are stripped of numerical (or other) data values before being transmitted to a first mac...