ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,655, issued on June 2, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface to depict data lineage information in levels" was invented by Danfeng Jiang (Shanghai) and Jie Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to a graphical user interface (GUI) that is operable to depict data lineage information in levels. In some embodiments, data lineage information may specify a directed graph that is indicative of a data lineage associated with a plurality of data elements. For example, in the data lineage information, the plurality of data elements may be represented as a correspondin...