ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,462, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Computer system and methods for managing data, data access, and data retention" was invented by Anuj Rohatgi (Austin, Texas), Allen Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Tabitha Jewett (Ventura, Calif.), Terrence Cole (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Tem K. Boylan (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing data and data connections for a construction project involve (1) establishing respective data connections between (i) each party-entity data record and a project-entity data record for the construction project, and (ii) each part...